Neon & Dirt Roads

Verse

Tailgate down on a gravel shoulder

Radio static and a Georgia moon

Your bare feet up on the busted cooler

Fireflies keeping time to a borrowed tune

Seventeen and we own the whole horizon

Windows down till the engine starts to steam

Nothing but crickets and the sound of tires

Chasing a summer we won't let leave

Pre-Chorus

So what if the map runs out

What if the dark won't end

What if this is the only town

We ever need again

Chorus

It's neon and dirt roads, whiskey-warm July

Sparklers in the ditches, writing names across the sky

We're barefoot, we're reckless, we're never gonna fold

Neon and dirt roads, nineteen and gold

Verse

Parking lot lit up like a carnival

Cherry slush running down your wrist

Jukebox glow through a diner window

Counting stars we're never gonna miss

Back roads braided like a secret we keep

Corn fields whispering when the engine dies

Two silhouettes on a water tower

Watching August burn across the sky

Pre-Chorus

So what if the summer ends

What if we can't stay this young

What if right here, right now

Is the only forever we've got

Chorus

It's neon and dirt roads, whiskey-warm July

Sparklers in the ditches, writing names across the sky

We're barefoot, we're reckless, we're never gonna fold

Neon and dirt roads, nineteen and gold

Bridge

Someday we'll be gray and far

From this bench seat, this beat-up car

But I'll still taste the peach and tar

The night we swore we'd never park

This life, this town, this dashboard light

Was every dream I got right

Chorus

It's neon and dirt roads, whiskey-warm July

Sparklers in the ditches, writing names across the sky

We're barefoot, we're reckless, we're never gonna fold

Neon and dirt roads, nineteen and gold

Neon and dirt roads, forever young and bold