chocolate peanuts and relient k,
a water bottle cap and water in my lap
swing sets on sunday and helping you walk,
a piece of a lilac bush I put on top

of my bookshelf, drawings of a rose just for you
and no one else
i still have the dirt in my notebook from when i ran to you
and tripped, and you took a piece of me with you

campgrounds in the summertime
Iowa heat in our lungs and your hand in mine
running after you through a kickball field
late nights on the phone and all the things you revealed

wooden swing at a hardware store
two kids talking but look and you'd see something more
two hearts slowly becoming one
and that look in your eyes when you shone like the sun
but

if it makes you feel better
just pretend it never happened
and that we never met

and if it makes you feel better
just pretend it never happened
and that I don't exist

an offered hand on a movie night
it was getting intense and you were scared so you held it tight
and that was it, we were over the edge
the next day you called during lunch and you said

"we need to talk" and my heart skipped a beat
in the basement of the church is where we decided to meet
and I explained what you meant to me
then at dinner we held hand under the table where nobody could see

we tried to keep it secret for as long as we could
but it's hard not to smile when your life feels that good
and I’m pretty sure everybody could see
the way you felt from the way that you looked at me

we changed from being just some naive kids
to a couple, a team, a force to be reckoned with
accomplish anything we set our mind to
I don't know if you remember but I do.

but I won't pretend it was perfect
some nights I didn't wanna come home
I didn't want to know where you'd been
didn't want to know who you'd been texting

didn't want to know who stayed over at your place last night
didn't want to know because I didn't want to know if I was right
didn't understand why we fought so much
and didn't want to know if we were losing touch
but If you want to forget, I can't blame you
'cause sometimes I wish that I could too.

so if it makes you feel better
just pretend it never happened
and that we never met

and if it makes you feel better
just pretend it never happened
and that I don't exist

all i ever wanted was for you to be happy
and it's clear to me that you can do fine without me
and I just hope that you'd remember
me the way that we were at our best

and if my best didn't make you happy
then you're better off without me
but I'll remember you
the way that we were at our best

but if all you can see
is naught but painful memories
then there's no reason to keep these

so if it makes you feel better
just pretend we never happened
and that we never met

and if it makes you feel better
just pretend we never happened
and that I don't exist

if it makes you feel better
just pretend it never happened
and that we never met

and if it makes you feel better
just pretend it never happened
and that I don't exist

if it makes you feel better
just pretend it never happened
and that we never met