New York Minute

I remember it well
 Feeling awkward as hell
 In a teenage conversation
 We were rocking The Strokes
 Then I was meeting your folks
 Trying to pass that initiation
 We never called it a date
 But baby I couldn't wait
 To see if we had the same affections
 That summer down by the lake
 We were raising the stakes
 To see if we'd make the same confessions
 And I'm slower than most on the uptake
 Forever in debt to the one day
 When the lights came on and I got it
 It only took me a New York minute to spot it
 I knew it the second I saw it
 You were everything that I didn't know I wanted
 I was ready to blow all of my student loans
 For the drive those winter weekends
 You would listen to all of my shitty songs
 About a guy with conflicted feelings
 I remember the day that I drove away
 When you said that we needed distance
 I spent the next 3 years trying to not appear
 Like a half of me was missing
 And I'm slower than most on the uptake
 Forever in debt to the one day...
 When the lights came on and I got it
 It only took me a New York minute to spot it
 I knew it the second I saw it
 You were everything that I didn't know I wanted
 Sometimes the best things in life only come around
 When the rest of it's not quite working out
 And I'd do it again for a shot at the end game
 Girl that's why I was holding out
 One day the lights came on and I got it
 It only took me a New York minute to spot it
 I knew it the second I saw it
 You were everything that I didn't know I wanted
 You were everything I didn't know I wanted
 You were everything I didn't know I wanted