Twenty, the Long Hallway

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Verse

I'm at twenty in a building where there's nobody to name
There are sixteen other people on the other side the door
And they laugh like they've been laughing since the summer before
And I practise saying hello like it's something I'm not sure
Oh I go and get a coffee and I come back, and no more
And the hallway is enormous and the hallway's always the same
And I'm carrying a lifetime of a very careful shame
That I'm nobody's particular and nobody knows my name

Chorus

It's okay, it's okay
There is somebody upstairs who is just as scared as you can be
And in sixteen days you'll meet them in the laundry, accidentally
And you'll talk until the morning about everything you'll be
Oh I promise you, I promise you, I promise you you're free
It's okay, it's okay
You are early, you are early, that is all, and that's okay
And the rest of it is coming, it is coming, it's on its way

Verse

I have called my mother twice today, I'm sorry for the phone
And I told her it was going great and told it wrong tonight
And she knew, because a mother always knows you're not alright
And she said the first year's awful and she said it very light
Oh she said that she was lonely too at twenty, and she's right
So I hung up and I sat there in the middle of my own
Little rented, rattling, rain-against-the-window zone
And I understood that everybody's twenty, and alone

Chorus

It's okay, it's okay
There is somebody upstairs who is just as scared as you can be
And in sixteen days you'll meet them in the laundry, accidentally
And you'll talk until the morning about everything you'll be
Oh I promise you, I promise you, I promise you you're free
It's okay, it's okay
You are early, you are early, that is all, and that's okay
And the rest of it is coming, it is coming, it's on its way

Bridge

You are going to have a person and you're going to have some friends
Not this month and not this semester and maybe not this year
But you'll get them all at once and you will wonder how you're here
And you'll look around a kitchen at eleven, and it's clear
That the hallway didn't beat you and it isn't what you fear
And you'll laugh about the hallway when the hallway finally ends
And you'll tell it to a stranger, and the stranger comprehends
And that's how it goes for everyone, that's how the story bends