Sunlight Keeps the Receipts

Verse

Sixteen, barefoot on the melting black top road

Popsicle red running down my elbow slow

Screen door slamming, radio caught on static gold

We were rich in nothing but the sun, and we didn't know

Pre-Chorus

Do you feel it fading

Even while it's here

Gold hour keeps on paying

For a debt we don't fear

Chorus

Sunlight keeps the receipts

On the skin, in the freckles, in the heat

Every splash, every cannonball leap

It's all still glowing underneath

Sunlight keeps the receipts

Verse

Nineteen now, the pool sits empty since the fall

Still got chlorine ghosts caught in my hair somehow

Tan line fading like a Polaroid pinned to the wall

Proof that we were golden, proof that we're golden now

Pre-Chorus

Do you feel it fading

Even while it's here

Gold hour keeps on paying

For a debt we don't fear

Chorus

Sunlight keeps the receipts

On the skin, in the freckles, in the heat

Every splash, every cannonball leap

It's all still glowing underneath

Sunlight keeps the receipts

Bridge

Seasons change the color

But the light don't forget

Every summer

Still collects what we spent

I'm not scared of October

I got proof, I got debt

Chorus

Sunlight keeps the receipts

On the skin, in the freckles, in the heat

Every splash, every cannonball leap

It's all still glowing underneath

Sunlight keeps the receipts

Sunlight keeps the receipts