Lyrics
[Intro] (we were summer for a while...) (we were summer for a while...) [Verse 1] We sold the bikes we never grew out of, the pool's drained out but still that blue. My mom keeps every window open like the heat might still get through. I've got a box that's marked "the city," leaving when the leaves let go, and a whole summer I keep folding into something I can't show. [Pre-chorus] And I feel us getting older every time the streetlights come on — [Chorus] The lake went still, the light went golden, August quietly got old. We were summer for a while there, gone before we felt the cold. Now the bikes are in the garage and the whole town's gone to stone, 'cause we don't get the summer, summer back — so we drive to fall alone. [Verse 2] We drove out to the lake past midnight, passed a bottle, didn't talk. Someone whispered "stay forever," nobody got up to walk. Now Jenny's moving out for college, Marcus took his brother's store, and I'm the one who swore I'd never — swore I'd never leave, before. [Pre-chorus] And I feel us getting older every time the streetlights come on — [Chorus] The lake went still, the light went golden, August quietly got old. We were summer for a while there, gone before we felt the cold. Now the bikes are in the garage and the whole town's gone to stone, 'cause we don't get the summer, summer back — so we drive to fall alone. [Outro] (we were summer for a while...) (for a while... for a while...)
