Alex

[Verse 1] You didn't try to give yourself a special kind of name, You asked which bus I took and learned my football team. You burnt the first four pancakes, said the fifth might be all right, And let me keep my headphones on the whole drive home that night. [Chorus] You learned my team, you learned my way, A thousand little reasons just to stay. No speech could build what you made with time, You kept my place until I knew it was mine. [Verse 2] You waited through the school play with a bunch of yellow flowers, My part was saying one short line; the whole thing lasted hours. You never said I owed you for the lifts or muddy shoes, You asked me what I thought and gave me proper room to choose. [Bridge] I know I wasn't easy when the whole house felt brand new, There were doors I closed and questions that I wouldn't put to you. But now when something happens, you're a person that I call, Turns out all those small things were the biggest thing of all. [Chorus] You learned my team, you learned my way, A thousand little reasons just to stay. No speech could build what you made with time, You kept my place until I knew it was mine.