I found a marble in my coat

[Verse 1]
I found a marble in my coat
Blue as a winter bruise
Your name still stuck in my mouth
Like gum on an old school shoe

The swing set creaks in my head
When rain taps on the tin
I see our knees with the scraped-up skin
And the trouble we were in

[Pre-Chorus]
We were wild in the yard
We were kings of the dirt
Now I hold that little loss
Like a stone in my shirt

[Chorus]
Tears of a bygone childhood
(Tears of a bygone childhood)
I cry for the days we could
Run till our lungs turned fire

Tears of a bygone childhood
(Tears of a bygone childhood)
I miss the hands I once knew
And the names that never tired

[Verse 2]
The chalk marks faded from the wall
But I still trace the lines
Where we made a castle out of boxes
And swore it was ours for life

Your bike leaned down by the gate
Mine fell into the grass
Now every broken summer screen
Feels like a door I passed

[Pre-Chorus]
We were loud in the dusk
We were bright in the mud
Now the years move like a train
And I’m still standing in the cut

[Chorus]
Tears of a bygone childhood
(Tears of a bygone childhood)
I cry for the days we could
Run till our lungs turned fire

Tears of a bygone childhood
(Tears of a bygone childhood)
I miss the hands I once knew
And the names that never tired

[Bridge]
If I could bend time back
I’d steal one last July
Pocket every plastic crown
And every fearless lie

Just one more game of hide and seek
One more shout from the lawn
Before the moon learned how to keep
What the daylight had drawn

[Final Chorus]
Tears of a bygone childhood
(Tears of a bygone childhood)
I cry for the days we could
Run till our lungs turned fire

Tears of a bygone childhood
(Tears of a bygone childhood)
I miss the hands I once knew
And the names that never tired

Tears of a bygone childhood
(Tears of a bygone childhood)
Let me keep one crumb of blue
From the sweet days gone by