Simeon Hammond Dallas - Seventeen Lyrics

      

Seventeen
by Simeon Hammond Dallas

I don’t know how I got this scared
I was a wild thing once
Did I always have to fight for love?
I get so anxious it’s not there
Under blankets in your mother’s house
Remembering the moment you first let me down

 I know that feeling, suffocating under your skin
Someone claw it off

 I break all my boundaries as soon as I get lonely
Someone stronger told me it’s okay to fail sometimes
But I fold so often I’m scared my word means nothing
Seventeen I should have up and left the boy behind

 I don’t know how it got this bad
I had nerves of steel
Til you taught mе that my dreams aren’t real
Said you’rе the best I’ll ever have
And then you turned me into someone else
Remember the first promise I broke to myself

 I know that feeling, suffocating under your skin
Someone claw it off

 I break all my boundaries as soon as I get lonely
Someone stronger told me it’s okay to fail sometimes
But I fold so often I’m scared my word means nothing
Seventeen I should have up and left the boy behind

 But I couldn’t, I froze
I was afraid to say no
I’d blame myself when you’d go
You were older you should have known
And if I just left then
Left you crying on that old park bench
Maybe I wouldn’t be so scared of men
Who make me doubt the things that I know

 But I break all my boundaries as soon as I get lonely
Someone stronger told me it’s okay to fail sometimes
But I fold so often I’m scared my word means nothing
Seventeen I should have up and left the boy behind