Dial-Up Dreams at Midnight

Street lights paint the dashboard blue

We′re talking jokes and college plans

Your flip phone lights up in your hand

Like a secret in a summer band

We laughed so hard we lost the thread

And stayed awake till three instead

We burned CDs and had song lines

We felt immortal for a while

Now every memory hits like rain

Soft and sharp and the wind open

And I can hear the old me call

From somewhere past the shopping mall

Take me back to the midnight chat

When the whole wide world felt less than that

When our hearts were loud and our hopes were brave

Before we went and made some new waves

We were falling through the dark parade

With a borrowed song in a parking lot light

If I could hold one moment tight

I'd kiss the dark kid alive tonight

I said you'd never change for fame

I said I'd leave this town the same

But time wore a new dance in our shoes

And taught us how to lose and choose

Now every page we used to write

Still smells like summer, still feels right

We were clumsy, cursed, and free

Before the world got loud to me

Now every memory hits the green

Soft and sharp in the window pane

And I can hear the old me call

From somewhere past the shopping mall

Take me back

To the midnight chat when the whole wide world felt less than that

When our hearts were loud and our hopes were brave

Before we learned the names of the waves

We were falling through the dark but bright

With a borrowed song and a parking lot life

If I could hold one moment tight

I'd keep that kid alive tonight

If I could dial that number now

I′d tell us both we'd make it out

Nothing changed

We′re still the same

With a softer voice

And I said your name

Take me back to the midnight shot

When the whole wide world felt less than out

When our hearts were loud and our hopes were brave

We folded like remains of the waste

We were falling through the dark but bright

With a borrowed song in the parking lot light

As I could hold one moment tight

I keep that kid alive tonight