More songs by Gracie Abrams
Description
Sometimes parting sounds louder than meeting. Especially if it happens on a train, where every stranger suddenly seems nicer than the one waiting on the platform. There is a strange relief in this - as if a knot that had been quietly suffocating you all this time has finally been untied. A few sips of freedom, a little irony, a touch of bitterness - and forward, to new people, bars by the river, and honest conversations without curtsies.
In your twenties, a simple realization comes: you don't have to endure, you don't have to save, you don't have to be convenient. You can just take off - to Boston, to yourself, anywhere - and not look back. Because true “difficult love” is not for someone else, but for yourself, when you finally choose peace over drama.
Lyrics and translation
Original
I took a train to Boston and I wanted to cry
He's gone, I'm twenty-four, and it's a Saturday night
I ran and took his jacket with the rip in the side
I hate when we fight, sucks when we fight
But, honestly, whatever, he's just one of the boys
I'll date for like a summer, and I'll leave when I'm bored
This train is full of strangers, but I might like 'em more
Said I might like 'em more, yeah, no, I like 'em more
And that's just tough love
But I mean it, really mean it
I'm not charmed, so I'm leavin'
I laughed the second he tried to call my bluff
I guess it's always funny until it's not
When I left him there to feel it
Couldn't guess what I'd be leavin' for
No chance I waste my twenties on random men
Not one of them is cooler than all my friends
And I hate to leave him bleedin'
But I know now what I'm leavin' for
I'm walkin' by the river and I stop by the boats
At night, it's kinda temptin' just to see if you'd float
The benches by the Charles gave me somewhere to go
I feel like I'm home, there's a bar down the road
I'm wasted with the sister of a boy that I met
Through someone back in college, she's a weird intellect
She liked to tell the truth, and she was harsh but direct
Her boyfriends all left, she had that effect
But that's just tough love
And you're lucky to receive it, right?
He'll crumble to pieces
I laughed the second he tried to call my bluff
I guess it's always funny until it's not
When I left him there in pieces
Couldn't guess what I'd be leavin' for
No chance I waste my twenties on random men
Not one of them is smarter than all my friends
And I hate to leave him bleedin'
But I know now what I'm leavin' for
Ooh
Oh, I know now what I'm leavin' for
Hmm
Oh, I know now what I'm leavin'
No, I'm not gonna miss the way he'd kick me in my bed while sleepin'
And I'm not gonna miss his shitty friends and nights of their binge-drinkin'
And I'm not gonna miss his old inflated ego, shallow thinkin'
And I'm not gonna miss denyin' that I've got my own damn reasons
I laughed the second he tried to call my bluff
I guess it's always funny until it's not
When I left him there to feel it
Couldn't guess what I'd be leavin' for
No chance I waste my twenties on random men
Not one of them is tougher than all my friends
And I hate to leave him bleedin'
But I know now what I'm leavin' for