Icarus The Owl – Touchstone lyrics

[Intro]
This impossible fleeting feeling
They are struggling to unearth
Part of its skull has emerged
And the archaeologists are cleaning off the dirt

[Verse 1]
When I'd drive away I'd call your house
And hear your voice before I reached the mountain
Young love is something that
We get too old to understand
(We are too old to understand)
It's larvae, it's chapter one;
It's the prequel to everything
I wish I hadn't done (x2)

[Refrain]
I lay here seemingly unimagined
By the muses of my nostalgia
I am nowhere Kansas to their New England
Or just England

[Pre-Chorus]
I am but a speck on a map
A road to pass through;
A necessary stop at a highway toll booth
Holding hands in your mother's car
Pretending we were the first on mars
But the last to count on anyone

[Chorus]
Just outside your house (x2)
100 meters down that trail into the park:
Where you will find the last good thing left in my heart
If I had just held you a little longer a little (a little longer)
Or played the perfect song for you
I miss those vacant parking lots
Wasting gas just to get lost

[Verse 2]
We were two figures atop a mountain;
A spectacle to the surrounding houses
Young love is something that we get too old to understand
Beyond the tree roots and the topsoil;
Into the cold gritty ground it lays, it lays

[Refrain]
I lay here seemingly unimagined
By the muses of my nostalgia
I am nowhere Kansas to their New England
Or just England

[Pre-Chorus]
I am but a speck on a map
A road to pass through;
A necessary stop at a highway toll booth
Holding hands in your mother's car
Pretending we were the first on mars
But the last to count on anyone

[Chorus]
Just outside your house (x2)
100 meters down that trail into the park:
Where you will find the last good thing left in my heart
If I had just held you a little longer a little
Or played the perfect song for you
I miss those vacant parking lots
Wasting gas just to get lost

[Outro]
(This was my youth) All we were to
(This was my youth) Your nosy neighbors (x2)
(This was my youth) Were two bodies
(This was my youth) Of younger strangers (x2)
(This was my youth)