C F G
I've had you with me since I first laid coins
C
On the track
F G
If you leave I'm not sure how it will be
C
If you do come back
F G
I felt you dance in the summer wind
Am
When you were long and thin
F G
So if I ask for a handful of space
C
Would you still come home again?
C F G
It's the little things you miss when it all changes
C F C
Even if you're the one doing the moving on
F G
When the world shifts and you get rearranged
G Am
When your grief lies melting in the sun
Am F G C
When your grief is just you melting in the sun
When I first met you I had
Sunlight in my hair
Hot asphalt kissed my feet
And you were always there
Looking at you now I know
Those days won't come again
I know we both aren't the boys
That we were back then
It's the little things you miss when it all changes
When your old leather boots start to rub you sore
When the world shifts and you get rearranged
When it's the last time you close a door
When it's the very last time you close a door When the dusk was deep you made me feel Like I'd be okay That the moon would rise and I'd Smile up at her someday But we are trees growing hard Against a chain link fence I just had hoped to take you with me When I danced in my blue dress It's the little things you miss when it all changes When you trade yourself in like an old used car The world around you shifts and you get rearranged When you sail your ship so far out past the bar When the world makes you into what you are
Written in Tucson in early 2021, we had been on HRT less than a year and wanted to shave our legs. We took great pride in our leg hair for a long time, since we were always thinking about it it meant we liked it, right? Shaving it was a very big admission and repudiation of our former gender. This song is also full of double meanings with a childhood crush we had. Reading it again now is somewhat bittersweet, but mostly because time passing is a wild thing!