Mixtape at Midnight

I found a box in the back of my room

Bones, tapes, faded labels, motel perfume

Check one hits and I′m seventeen again

Junior heartache on a burnt out day band

You are sun

Faded denim on my nerves

Hanging by the parking lot

Losing our words

When the sky went cold

And the streetlights came on

And every little second felt impossible long

We'd rewind the summer nights

Let the static fade away

Turn the dial back to one

We never knew the way

Underneath our skies

We were dancing through the fire

Cold and numb to forever

With a chorus to light up

We burned the summer nights

Let the memory ignite

We were young, we were loud

We were born to stay alive

And if the world moved on

And never took that spark

You still the song I hear

When the radio gets dark

Now the city glows like a promise in the rain

Simple street, but it never feels the same

We still taste the freedom in the midnight air

Like a secret we were too young to know we share

If I close my eyes, I can see that road

The dashboard lights, the miles, the stories we told

Every mixtape crackle brings you back in view

And the night speckles out just like it used to do

Rewind the summer nights

Let the static fade away

Turn the dial back to one

We never knew the way

Under neon lights

We were dancing through the fire

Holding on to forever

Like a chorus to a wire

Remind us of the nights

That the memory came by

We were young, we were loud

We were born to stay alive

And if the world moved on

And if it took that spark

This love is all I hear

When the radio gets done