Your Innocence

[Verse 1]
Thick makeup and a tight little dress
Your mama don’t like but you wore instead
Cause you got a point to prove to yourself and friends
Your eighteen years, a little too young
To know who to trust, your heart’s on the run
With a boy who’s bringing you flowers
That cover-up is gone

[Pre-Chorus]
Go slow with it
‘Cause where that road’s headed
Is the graveyard of something you didn’t know when you existed
And when you see him reach for his hip
You’ll hear that sound of a whispering clip
And when it’s bullets, it ain’t the death of you
Just your innocence

[Chorus]
Slow down you crazy child
‘Cause this will take awhile
Don’t you blame it on yourself
Slow down you crazy child
‘Cause this will take awhile
Don’t you blame it on yourself

[Verse 2]
You chase the breath out your lungs
You can’t believe this day has come
He’s saying the words that’s letting you know he’s so done
Make or break your way down the bedroom hall
But the weight of his words they bring you to fall
Leaving you on the floor thinking it’s your fault

[Pre-Chorus]
Go slow with it
Let some time heal ya
‘Cause the wounds dry up and remind you to never stop leaving
You’ll bounce back from your lowest of lows
You’ll rise above every heartbreak you’ve thrown
Looking back you’ll learn from your past
It was just your innocence

[Chorus]
Slow down you crazy child
‘Cause this will take awhile
Don’t you blame it on yourself
Slow down you crazy child
‘Cause this will take awhile
Don’t you blame it on yourself

[Bridge]
You will grow and you will change
You’ll discover yourself in beautiful ways
The pain will go but you will remain
With strength that flows like a poem right through your veins
Oh-ohhh

[Chorus]
Slow down you crazy child
‘Cause this will take awhile
Don’t you blame it on yourself
Slow down you crazy child
‘Cause this will take awhile
Don’t you blame it on yourself
Oh no
Oh it was just your innocence