Note: Thanks so much tmrwspromise for the review! Yellowcard's probably my second favourite band, and their music is awesome to write to. Only One is my favourite too, though, so that's crazy!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yellowcard, their songs, lyrics or music, or the names, characters and settings of School of Rock.Ocean Avenue
"Hey, you've reached Zack Mooneyham, a.k.a. the Hizzle Fizzle Shizzle. I'm not here, so leave a message after the beep, and I'll get back to you. Maybe. Okay, enough of that… Talk to ya! Beep… Ha, just joshin'."
Beep.
"Hey Zack, it's me."
There's a place off Ocean Avenue
"Umm… How've you been?"
Where I used to sit and talk with you
"You're busy, I'm guessing. Uh... How's U of T? Nice city? I've been there once, it's really… clean."
We were both sixteen and it felt so right
Sleepin' all day stayin' up all night
"I've been good, school's tough, but what can you expect, I guess. Accounting isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world."
There's a place on the corner of Cherry Street
We would walk on the beach in our bare feet
"Are you still in touch with anyone? Freddy? Katie? I talk to Marta once in a while, 'cause she's still in town, but everyone's just all over the place now. Like, where did Lawrence ever go, do you know?"
We were both eighteen and it felt so right
Sleepin' all day stayin' up all night
"Anyway, I just called because, well, you know, we haven't talked in a while, and it's nice to catch up with each other here and there, right? So, I was thinking, since there's a long weekend coming up, maybe we could see each other or something?"
There's a piece of you that's here with me
"Toronto and New York are really close, if you think about it… If you don't want to come down here, I can come up there… I mean, I'm not doing anything, and I haven't been to Canada in a while, so it'd be a nice break, I guess."
It's everywhere I go it's everything I see
"Okay… I'm just going to be honest. We haven't talked since the end of grade twelve, and even then we were hardly talking. I think it's time we get past this childishness, don't you? I mean, it's ridiculous. We're adults now, we're almost done school for good, and we can't even talk? It's sort of bugging me, Zack."
When I sleep I dream and it gets me by
"And…
"…God… I just… I just miss you, okay?"
I can make believe that you're here tonight
"It all happened so long ago, and it was all really stupid. I was only seventeen, I had no idea what I was saying! And admit it, Zack, you didn't either. We were stupid, naïve kids who had no idea what… Well, what… what love was."
I remember the look in your eye
When I told you that this was goodbye
"I wish I could just, I don't know, rewind time? And live those couple weeks with the knowledge that I have now. I haven't met anyone like you, Zack."
You were begging me not tonight
Not here, not now
"But maybe that was a good thing, you know? Like, maybe that's the way it was all meant to happen, so we could figure out that what we had was right. Oh… so I could figure it out."
We're looking up at the same night sky
Keep pretending the sun will not rise
"Sorry, I sometimes forget I'm talking to an answering machine. Do you live alone? Will someone else hear this?"
We'll be together for one more night
"So… anyway, I think I was wrong when I said what I said. It wasn't just… Just attraction, okay?"
Somewhere, somehow
"Okay, this is all going downhill. I wasn't supposed to say all this. I was supposed to leave a nice, maintained, short, abbreviated message, and you were supposed to get back to me. I hate answering machines."
If I could find you now
Things would get better
"If I haven't scared you off completely, call me, okay?"
We could leave this town
And run forever
"Call me because I was wrong. I was totally wrong, and I'm sorry. I think you know that I was wrong, though. I hope you know. Do you have a girlfriend? Wouldn't that be bad if she picked this up."
I know somewhere somehow
We'll be together
"Just call the number I gave all of you guys at the end of the year, and ask for Summer, okay? Please?"
Let your waves crash down
On me and take me away
"Bye."
