Like a perfectly skipped stone, your whistle arrived at my shore
Absentmindedly trilling cadenzas as if you were bored
A couple days into this I announced envy
And you simply grinned like you normally do
That's the first time I knew I'd fall flat on my face over you
Soon formalities turned into dialogue, each word a charm
And I shocked at the warmth of your lean and the skin of your arm
Late bloomer blemishes, summer job sandwiches
Valedictorians meeting curfew
And I braced for the impact, falling flat on my face over you
The promise upon the horizon turned into the ledge
Stripes on a calendar marking the steps toward the edge
Just as I came to be finding some balance
You mentioned that someone had whispered to you
And you'd answered the whispers with the sweetest of whistles
And my face and my heart were both falling and flattened by you
We wear costumes for confidence, candor swapped out for cologne
I had thought my performance persuasive, but to each his own
Since the very beginning, the bottle's been spinning
I'm in the last inning and still down by two
And I fondly remember falling flat on my face over you
It's ridiculous how I fell flat on my face over you