Gold in the Static

Verse

Screen door slaps twice, and the porch light hums

Radio static between two songs

Bare feet on the hood of your daddy's truck

Seventeen and we knew nothing wrong

Popsicle melting down my wrist

Your laugh cracked open like a paper fan

We didn't know we'd want this back

This dusty, lazy, golden hand

Pre-Chorus

Did we know it wouldn't last

That the light was already turning past

Did we care, did we even try

To hold it right before it said goodbye

Chorus

It's gold in the static, that summer we had

Fuzzy at the edges, but I still hear it, bad

Cicadas and the engine, your hand on the dash

Turn it up, turn it up, let the moment crash

It's gold in the static, and it never fades

Every crackle keeps the color from the gray

Verse

Drive-in movie, but we watched the sky

Gas station slushies, blue on your tongue

Fireflies caught in a jar we forgot

Set them loose before the night was done

Chevy radio skipped every third line

We sang the parts we could still recall

Now every static hiss brings you right back

Standing barefoot by the mall

Pre-Chorus

Did we know it wouldn't last

That the light was already turning past

Did we care, did we even try

To hold it right before it said goodbye

Chorus

It's gold in the static, that summer we had

Fuzzy at the edges, but I still hear it, bad

Cicadas and the engine, your hand on the dash

Turn it up, turn it up, let the moment crash

It's gold in the static, and it never fades

Every crackle keeps the color from the gray

Bridge

Maybe it's better blurry

Maybe forgetting some

Keeps the rest of it burning

Bright as a setting sun

I don't need the whole picture

Just that hiss, that hum, that spark

The static's kept it sacred

Kept it from the dark

Chorus

It's gold in the static, that summer we had

Fuzzy at the edges, but I still hear it, bad

Cicadas and the engine, your hand on the dash

Turn it up, turn it up, let the moment crash

It's gold in the static, and it never fades

Every crackle keeps the color from the gray

Still gold in the static, still yours and still mine

Turn it up one more time