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
