madeleine

tailgates and bonfires on cold autumn nights

i was falling for you

at the halloween party with the dressed up cool kids

and me, the invisible fool

if only you saw me like one of them

i could have talked to you

what if you saw me too

and i just couldn't see through

my own inexperience

my insecurity

in my looks

and in my inability to be anything good

take me back to then madeleine

i'll tell you the way that i feel

ooh ooh

i've always come on too passionate

or not spoken up out of fear

ooh ooh

well even your mom told my mom

she thought that we'd end up together

one day

and apparently for two years you loved me

as quiet as ever

why'd you never say

oh i've

never known, never known love

i'll never know, never know love

mmm i'll never know, never know what

could've been if I would've been a little less afraid

of no

my father said, "don't fear it

at worst it's a season

it's only a word after all"

of course i did not believe him

so i walked through that season

and never got the guts up to call

oh now i ponder and ponder

if i was the problem

the kid who didn't listen

do i have to forgive him

take me back to then madeleine

i'll tell you the way that i feel

ooh ooh

i've always come on too passionate

or not spoken up out of fear

ooh ooh

but even your mom told my mom

she thought that we'd end up together

one day

and apparently for two years you loved me

as quiet as ever

oh i've

never known, never known love

i'll never know, never know love

i guess i'll never know, never know what

could've been if I would've been a little less afraid