Stay Gold Tonight

Verse

Ice cream melting in a paper boat

Chalk on the sidewalk, nobody's leaving yet

Racing the streetlights down a block I know

Radio static and your laughter setting me free

We're not running from the clock tonight

Just the warmth that we don't wanna hide

Every porch light humming like it knows our names

This whole block is holding onto these same flames

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel the summer learning to stay?

Keep it close before it turns away

Let's pretend it never learns to fade

One more night, let this keep us made

Chorus

Stay gold tonight, don't let go of the glow

Every firefly we catch becomes our own

We're burning brighter than I ever knew

Nobody's leaving till it turns to slow

Verse 2

Porch swing creaking on a porch with no number

Fireworks from last week still in my pocket

The neighbor's cat curls up where the porch light lands

Like this whole neighborhood's holding hands

You're singing old songs we don't remember the words to

I don't mind — it just sounds like home, that's true

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel the summer learning to stay?

Keep it close before it turns away

Let's pretend it never learns to fade

One more night, let this keep us made

Chorus

Stay gold tonight, don't let go of the glow

Every firefly we catch becomes our own

We're burning brighter than I ever knew

Nobody's leaving till it turns to slow

Bridge

Maybe seasons change but memory stays warm

I'll carry the block in a box marked 'Home

When September comes with its gold turned gray

I'll light this same porch and call you back to stay

So hold my hand through every streetlamp glow

This whole town's ours for as long as it flows

Chorus

Stay gold tonight, don't let go of the glow

Every firefly we catch becomes our own

We're burning brighter than I ever knew

Nobody's leaving till it turns to slow