Favorite Sweater Memories

Your room is packed in cardboard boxes The hangers in your closet

are mostly bare

I’m looking at the empty spaces And realizing I won’t see you

there

You’re heading off to start your future A couple hundred miles away

from here

And I’m already missing everything We used to do throughout the year

Who’s gonna catch me in their favorite sweater?

The one I stole right off your bedroom floor

Who’s gonna laugh and say I know you took it When I

try to sneak it past your door?

Who’s gonna drive me when the night gets boring To walk the

aisles of Walmart at 2 AM?

You’re going to college,

big sis, and it hits me Nothing’s ever gonna be the same

again

I’m staring at my own dresser drawers

Full of hoodies that belong to you

You always screamed when you saw me wear them But you always

let me keep them too

And I’ll miss those sudden midnight cravings When we’d blast the radio

and hit the road

To buy some candy that we didn’t need Just to watch the

parking lot lights glow

You tell me that it’s just a new chapter

And that I can visit you on the weekends But it’s gonna

be quiet in the hallway Without my sister and my absolute best

friend

I’m keeping your oversized denim jacket Consider it a loan until you're

back I need a piece of you to hold onto

While you go out and clear your own track

But who’s gonna catch me in their favorite sweater?

The one I stole right off your bedroom floor

Who’s gonna laugh and say I know you took it

When I try to sneak it past your door?

Who’s gonna drive me when the night gets boring To walk the

aisles of Walmart at 2 AM?

You’re going to college,

big sis, and it hits me

Nothing’s ever gonna be the same again

Yeah, nothing’s gonna be the same

Make sure you leave a shirt behind (hmmmmm) I’ll see you soon,

big sis

Don't forget to call sometime