23 Lyrics – Noah Kahan | The Great Divide

Read the complete 23 Lyrics by Noah Kahan from the album The Great Divide along with song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Noah Kahan’s music, you can also explore Deny Deny Deny and Headed North, two other songs by Noah Kahan.

[Verse 1]
Half as drunk as I thought I’d be by now, that’s good
I can still see the people around me change shape
Speak their minds and pretend they were misunderstood
Preaching ’bout sin over lines of coc*ine
Even when you’re not here, it becomes about you
They all want me to tell ’em your story
You broke in and stole china from our living room
Kinda makes all the other parts boring
You stand over half a foot taller than me
Your marks on the wall of the weight room
Naive to believe you would come back and see

If I could finally take you

[Chorus]
Oh, well, I’d beat your ass ’til the morning
No, I’ve been running all this time
Sprinting my way past your bedroom
Lifting the weight of you off my mind
‘Cause if I never see you again
And you can be anything I want
Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
Teaching me how the thing runs

[Post-Chorus]
Stay gone
Won’t you stay gone?
Stay gone
Stay gone

[Verse 2]
Tattooed your initials into my right arm
So I’d see your name when I lift up a drink
There ain’t nothing else here worth catching up on
So I hope that it’s warm wherever you sleep
And I’ve got a feeling that won’t go away
The doctors are calling it “just moving on”

I still ball up my fists when they mention your name
No one gets to talk s*it but the ones you’ve s*it on

[Chorus]
Oh I’ll beat your ass in the morning
You know I’ve been running all this time
Sprinting my way past your bedroom
Lifting the weight of you off my mind
‘Cause if I never see you again
You could be anything I want
Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
Teaching me how the thing runs

[Post-Chorus]
Stay gone
Stay gone
Won’t you stay gone?
Stay gone

[Chorus]
Yeah, I’ll beat your ass ’til the morning
You know I’ve been running all this time
Sprinting my way past your bedroom
Lifting the weight of you off my mind
‘Cause if I never see you again
And you could be anything I want
Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
Teaching me how the thing runs
Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
It can all be the way that it was

[Post-Chorus]
If you stay gone
Stay gone
Won’t you stay gone
Stay gone

[Outro]
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