Last Summer On the B-Line

[Intro]

[tambourine shake

Then band slams in]

[Verse 1]

We were late to every movie

Missed the starts

Caught the ends

Stole your brother’s dented hatchback

Called the backroads our best friends

You drew stars on my old sneakers

Said they’d walk me out of here

But the summer stuck like sunburn

And the plans blurred year to year

[Chorus]

Last summer on the B-line

You were leaning out the door

Yelling “don’t grow up yet”

Sky bleeding into headlines

We were threading every hour like a cheap cassette

If I’d known that was the last time

I’d have let the tape run rough

Let it hiss

Let it bend

Last summer on the B-line

Thought the track would never end

[Verse 2]

You got paid in tips and tokens

Smelled like coffee

Sweat

And rain

Said the city felt like fiction

Till the rent came due again

I kept talking about leaving

You kept circling one more night

Tracing circles on the dashboard

As the trains blew past in light

[Chorus]

Last summer on the B-line

You were leaning out the door

Yelling “don’t grow up yet”

Sky bleeding into headlines

We were threading every hour like a cheap cassette

If I’d known that was the last time

I’d have let the tape run rough

Let it hiss

Let it bend

Last summer on the B-line

Thought the track would never end

[Bridge]

Maybe that’s the joke of it

Every “always” just pretends

We got older in a minute

And the minute never mends

[Chorus]

Last summer on the B-line

You were leaning out the door

Yelling “don’t grow up yet”

Sky bleeding into headlines

We were threading every hour like a cheap cassette

If I’d known that was the last time

I’d have let the tape run rough

Let it hiss

Let it bend

Last summer on the B-line

Last summer with my best friend