I Miss a Simple Life

Bills on the table

Names I don't know

Calendar crowded

Nowhere to go

Phone in my pocket

Won't leave me alone

Dinner from a carton

Cold at home

I miss a simple life

Hand-me-down jacket

Same old bike

Long dirt road in the evening light

Nothing in my pocket

But I slept just fine

Yeah, I miss a simple life —

The kind that let me rest inside

Dad in the driveway

Cursing at the car

Mom by the window

Watching from afar

Saturday mornings

Crumbs on the floor

Two TV channels —

We didn't need more

I miss a simple life

Hand-me-down jacket

Same old bike

Long dirt road in the evening light

Nothing in my pocket

But I slept just fine

Yeah, I miss a simple life —

The kind that let me rest inside

Now it's passwords

Traffic and screens

Headlines glowing

Where silence used to be

Was it better back then

Or just easier to see

That less felt like enough

For someone like me?

I miss a simple life

Cheap chipped mug and campfire nights

Same three songs on every drive

Nothing in my pocket —

But I slept just fine

Yeah, I miss a simple life

And I still chase it in my mind