Paper Crowns and Good Intentions

Verse

Dollar store crowns off the gas station rack

Foil gone silver, cardboard cracked at the back

We crowned ourselves king of the Wexford Lake pier

Sunburned and certain we'd rule for a year

Screen doors slamming, fireflies in a jar

Counting our kingdom by the light of one star

Pre-Chorus

Didn't know yet how fast summer runs

How the gold in the sky just gives up and goes

So we held on tighter to the last of the sun

Singing like the night was ours to own

Chorus

Paper crowns and good intentions

Melting fast like a July afternoon

We built kingdoms out of nothing

Underneath a paper moon

Every promise that we reached for

Was the truest thing we knew

Paper crowns and good intentions

That's the summer I built with you

Verse

Drive-in gravel, radio turned up loud

Names we carved got lost inside the crowd

You said someday we'd own more than this dirt

I said someday sounds like it might even work

Sparklers writing letters no one keeps

Falling asleep where the porch light sleeps

Pre-Chorus

Didn't know yet how fast summer runs

How the gold in the sky just gives up and goes

So we held on tighter to the last of the sun

Singing like the night was ours to own

Chorus

Paper crowns and good intentions

Melting fast like a July afternoon

We built kingdoms out of nothing

Underneath a paper moon

Every promise that we reached for

Was the truest thing we knew

Paper crowns and good intentions

That's the summer I built with you

Bridge

Now the crowns are long since gone to dust

But something in that gold still shines on us

Turns out the plans don't have to hold

For the reaching to be worth its weight in gold

I still wear that August like a second skin

Still that kid who thought the world could begin

Chorus

Paper crowns and good intentions

Melting fast like a July afternoon

We built kingdoms out of nothing

Underneath a paper moon

Every promise that we reached for

Was the truest thing we knew

Paper crowns and good intentions

That's the summer I built with you