Oh alaska I'm waiting here for you
in the corner of the smoking hole
tucked away from the eagles eye
we don't even have to do those lines again

in your flooded dorm room
where you gave me a cigarette
books stacked floor up the wall again
theres something about you that i just cannot forget
goddamn i hope that you do not end up dead

nothing quite like the way you smile at the air
how you go from crying to when you just do not care
when you walk away and tell me to come over there
how you look down and expect me to not want to stare

come run now
come run now
come run now
but don’t you make a sound

come run now
come run
keep running

Alaska it looks like the world’s in your eyes
I know that you’re not happy
and you keep things up inside
I know you’re waiting for a time in your life
to be able to say you’re alright
and you mean it now

You drown your sorrows in your wine
that’s down by the river
and you open up only to shut down
when you feel bitter

There’s a hurricane in your eyes
and a hint of drizzle in mine
but that’s just comes
with loving alaska young

oh alaska I’ll still be here for you
when you talk about yourself, gone wrong
you drink on with a glint in your eye
we’re going to have to devise plans again

in the smoked out barn shed
where we ran for miles and then
we were loud and we almost got caught again
moments like this i hope i wont forget
god damnit i hope you're here till the end


nothing quite like the way you kissed me goodnight
when you go from screaming to saying you're alright
I wish that i could see a future in sight
maybe not, seen as you’re out like a light

Alaska young why did learn how to drive
the petals on the phone booth
should have been out of sight

alaska young damn such a wonderful soul
but you left my world in the nighttime
left your life on the lifeline

alaska young i will miss you a lot
now theres nothing left but but quiet skies
without your car in the parking lot

alaska young, when will you understand
you built me up
you knocked me down
and left a ruined man

Alaska I wish you were here by my side
but you left my world in the nighttime
left your life on the lifeline

alaska young you were a wonderful soul
Just beginning to find your feet in the world
Alaska young I wish you were here by my side
so that you could say you're alive
you cant mean it now

You drowned your sorrows in your wine
you left by the river
and you opened up only to shut down
when you felt bitter

There’s not much left in your eyes
there’s drizzle here in mine
hurt’s what comes with
loving alaska young