"American Dream Trajectory" lyrics

Between sips you say
There's nothing heroic about
Growing up like you did
Surviving somehow
I held you at 17
Baby, you haven't changed a bit
Still wearing a face of steel
Still feeling all of it

When I think of your dad
Yeah it chokes me up
And I wasn't the one going through all of that stuff
Are you there right now?
That sixty degree summer you spend out west
Flipped a car, broke a heart resurrected a friend
Are you there right now?

You called it "February whiplash"
When the power goes out
It don't come back
Your eyes adjust to living in the dark
Your eyes give up on seeing who you are
Head strong anxious and healing slow
Repaying your debts
Clawing back control
You'd like to love somebody to a fault
You'd like to feel like you deserve it all

When I think of us young yeah, it makes me sick
I wake up wishing that we were together when were kids
Are you there right now?
The fatal flaws of the people that you had needed to breathe
Destroying your American Dream trajectory
Are you there right now?

Ohh we don't gotta talk about before
Oh we don't gotta talk about before
Oh we don't gotta talk about before
Oh we don't gotta talk about before

But we'll have to stop our running while we're stunted and afraid
Taking stock of what we lost there's so much life on the table
Are you there?
The fatal flaws of the people that we don't gotta be
Destroying your American Dream trajectory
Are you there right now?