Handwritten//Shawn mendes

track nine

Paige,
This may be a little longer than the others and you know why. That night, you were a wreck. One moment you were screaming that you didn't want to go, the next crying that you did but you were scared to go to a party, even if the first one was fun. And suddenly you opened your eyes and said you were ready. And I just snapped. I stormed out with my guitar to get away, and I came to my sisters house. She wrote and sang this song with me, which was something we've always done when we are sad or annoyed. I didn't know I couldn't have done anything worse than storming away. But anyway, baby, here is the next song. Its called Air.

I'm so sorry about what I did.

-Shawn

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Paige wasn't angry at him. He was under stress as she was and she had long forgiven him. Besides, what she had done was worse.

Except it was never her fault and she had never gotten a chance to explain.

Time crumbles when your heart is broken, she thought as she pressed play on the track.

[Shawn:]
Never thought that we would end up here,
Should've known it from the start
I know you mean it when you say you love me,
But we're trying way too hard

[Astrid:]
Used to think that we would last forever,
How could I've been so wrong
Never thought I'd be the one to say this,
What if our time has come and gone?

[Both:]
You, you don't mean no harm
But you're stringin' me along and I don't have the time to spare
And I, I'm trying hard to breathe
But you're suffocating me, this time I'm coming up for air

Air [12x]

[Astrid:]
Always tryna put your two cents in
Then expecting me to change
Tried to fix me up but I'm not broken,
All you do is leave me stained

[Shawn:]
Told you not to tie me down too quickly,
Take it slow it's not a race
And you keep on tryna reel me in but,
All I really need is space

[Both:]
You, you don't mean no harm
But you're stringin' me along and I don't have the time to spare
And I, I'm trying hard to breathe
But you're suffocating me, this time I'm coming up for air

Air [12x]
Air [12x]

[Shawn:]
Trying to hold me down
But I'm surfacing
It's hard to let you go,
But I gotta leave

[Both:]
You, you don't mean no harm
But you're stringin' me along and I don't have the time to spare
And I, I'm trying hard to breathe
But you're suffocating me, I'm coming up for air

You, you don't mean no harm
But you're stringin' me along and I don't have the time to spare
And I, I'm trying hard to breathe
But you're suffocating me, this time I'm coming up for air

Air [12x]
Air [12x]

Paige understood. But it still hurt, knowing there was so much more to come. This was only the beggining and Paige mcshaw was far from ready.

She would never be.

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Welp

-amelie xo