Sixteen years

The chalk is dusty on the chalkboard wall

I watch you walking down the empty hall

Sixteen summers tucked inside your grace

What time is it just lines upon my face

I am the teacher bound by every rule

But I'm losing my mind in the halls of school

And when you look at me the world just fades away

There are a thousand things I know I shouldn't say

The ink is dry the book is closed and tight

But I'm still reaching for you in the night

Sixteen years sixteen reasons to run

Sixteen years and we've only begun

To break every heart to break every rule

Tell me who is the teacher and who is the fool

Sixteen years sixteen reasons to run

Sixteen years and we've only begun

To break every heart to break every rule

Tell me who is the teacher and who is the fool

You hand your papers with a trembling hand

A secret language we both understand

The silence whispers what we can't confess

A heavy heart beneath the summer dress

I should be guiding you to find your truth

Instead I'm haunted by your golden youth

And when you look at me the world just fades away

There are a thousand things I know I shouldn't say

The ink is dry the book is closed and tight

But I'm still reaching for you in the night

Sixteen years sixteen reasons to run

Sixteen years and we've only begun

To break every heart to break every rule

Tell me who is the teacher and who is the fool

Sixteen years sixteen reasons to run

Sixteen years and we've only begun

To break every heart to break every rule

Tell me who is the teacher and who is the fool

The world would judge and they'd call it a sin

But throw the slide and I can't let you in

I'll play the part I'll be the man of stone

And watch you walk into the light alone

Sixteen years sixteen reasons to run

Sixteen years and we've only begun

To break every heart to break every rule