I wish that I could see the way the world weighs down on you
As you can tell that it is weighing down on me too
I wish that I could see the same as you see this mountain view
Because I can tell that it is weighing down on you, dear

You know, that I wish that I had grown up in the fifties
And you know, that I wish that you could see how I used to be
When I had fewer things on my weary mind
When I still had the time for you and to write

Faded blue jeans at your best friend's wedding
By then I could tell that I'd be leaving you
I know that you couldn't understand a thing that I was meaning
As we started to leave your best friend's wedding
I never had the time to explain that nothing's going to change
(It all just stays the same)

I was raised to believe that there was such a thing as love
As I recollected over stale beers and wet cigarettes
Of that old tattoo on your father's arm that read I'll always love you Colette
And I always thought that I could find a love like that

But why, yeah why would something so beautiful happen to a wreck like me
I still wish that you could see this side of the river banks
The old friends, bonfires, we're singing broken off key melodies
To the songs we wrote then fell in love with then grew to regret

These faded blue jeans at your best friend's wedding
By then I could tell that I'd be leaving you
I know that you couldn't understand a thing that I was meaning
As we started to leave your best friend's wedding
I never had the time to explain that nothing's going to change

Well if nothing's going to change, yeah?
Well I guess it all stays the same
And if nothing's going to change, dear...
I guess I can change my name

Faded blue jeans at your best friend's wedding
By then I could tell that I'd be leaving you
I know that you couldn't understand a thing that I was meaning
As we started to leave your best friend's wedding
I never had the time to explain that nothing's going to change
(It all just stays the same)