Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem....

I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

Everytime you smile, I smile And everytime you shine, I'll shine for you.

, and they could name a handful.

There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

People throw rocks at things that shine.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that.