Afterglow – The Ember

Verse

Screen door swings on a rusty hinge

Radio's crackling on the porch again

Strings of lights on the backyard fence

Paper cups full of lemonade and gin

Kicked my shoes off in the gravel drive

Grass stains climbing up my knee

Everybody's here and the sun won't set

It's hanging gold in the peach tree leaves

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it building

Right under your skin

Nowhere left to be

So where do we begin

Chorus

We're free tonight, we're dancing tonight

Bare feet spinning under string light

Nothing to lose, nowhere to hide

This is the afterglow, this is the afterglow

Alive tonight, we're flying tonight

Sparks off the gravel, stars catching fire

Hold on tight, let the whole world go

This is the afterglow, this is the afterglow

Verse

Someone's blasting trumpets from a truck bed

Sprinkler's spraying rainbows on the lawn

Ice cubes melting in a mason jar

We don't care if daylight's almost gone

Cousins racing barefoot down the road

Fireflies get tangled in my hair

Every clock in town just stopped for us

Nothing but this moment, standing here

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it building

Right under your skin

Nowhere left to be

So where do we begin

Chorus

We're free tonight, we're dancing tonight

Bare feet spinning under string light

Nothing to lose, nowhere to hide

This is the afterglow, this is the afterglow

Alive tonight, we're flying tonight

Sparks off the gravel, stars catching fire

Hold on tight, let the whole world go

This is the afterglow, this is the afterglow

Bridge

Someday we'll be old and grey

Telling stories 'bout this day

Say the summer never left

Say we kept it in our chest

Right here, right now, we're wide awake

Nothing to prove, nothing to save

Chorus

We're free tonight, we're dancing tonight

Bare feet spinning under string light

Nothing to lose, nowhere to hide

This is the afterglow, this is the afterglow

Alive tonight, we're flying tonight

Sparks off the gravel, stars catching fire

Hold on tight, let the whole world go

This is the afterglow, this is the afterglow

Outro

Gold in the trees, gold on your skin

This is the glow we're living in