How they care

We're eating lunch

and someone says your name

and he asks

how is she anyway?

 

There's an orchestra in my heart

that's playing just for you

and playing happy now

because they care.

 

They don't care like I do

maybe

they don't study you

when you're not looking

and ask you how your weekend was

but they think about you too.

 

I think about you too.

 

He thinks about you too.

 

We care.

Popcorn

VT

14 years old

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