it keeps me close like a promise kept

things are changing
some are small and unnoticeable to anyone else
some are sharp and obvious

[you enter and close the door behind you
now show me the world as seen from the stars
if only the lights would dim a little
i am weary of eyes upon my scars]

its sort of sad the way i feel so different than i used to be
this place has changed me (good or bad, i'm not sure nothing lasts forever)
i'm beginning to realize exactly who my real friends are and what it means to be a friend (some are gone nothing lasts forever)
i'm going to hudson valley next year (i will miss you nothing lasts forever)
i'm not with james, for now anyway (<3 nothing lasts forever)

[if the world were to fall apart
in a fiction-worthy wind
i wouldn't change a thing now that you're here
love is a verb here in my room, here in my room]

everything feels so final all of a sudden
and i don't know why.
this is it.
i'll never be here again.
(and i am both happy and sad at the same time.)