Nobody's Bet

Twenty years and counting, friend And I still owe you gas money We mapped half the country in your dying hatchback Coffee in those mugs that never matched Six addresses, four jobs, that one haircut We swore to take that photo to the grave People drift, that's what they say Somehow we never learned how Twenty years of you, and look at us Still picking up the phone mid-sentence You knew me when I was nobody's bet And stayed like staying didn't take attention No occasion, no excuse — Just twenty good years of you You stood up at my wedding, dropped the ring once I held your kid before your mother did We've argued maps and music, never meant it You're the call I'd make from any year I've lived People drift, that's what they say Somehow we never learned how Twenty years of you, and look at us Still picking up the phone mid-sentence You knew me when I was nobody's bet And stayed like staying didn't take attention No occasion, no excuse — Just twenty good years of you Someday we'll be two old men on a porch somewhere Arguing the same directions we argued at twenty-five And whoever's grandkid asks how long we've known each other We'll both just laugh and say "not long enough" Twenty years of you, and look at us Still picking up the phone mid-sentence You knew me when I was nobody's bet And stayed like staying didn't take attention No occasion, no excuse — Just twenty good years of you Twenty years and counting, friend Let's go for forty