Verse
Popsicle stick stuck to the porch rail
Radio static on a dirt road tale
Your knees on the dashboard, windows down
Sixteen and gold in a one-stoplight town
Lightning bugs blinking like a slow applause
We stole the whole summer, broke every clause
Sunburn on my shoulders, salt in my hair
That gravel pit water, we didn't care
Pre-Chorus
Tell me how a season
Can burn so bright then bend
Was it ever gonna last
Or were we chasing the end
Chorus
It's a fever, it's a fever
Ninety-nine degrees of young
Skin like sugar, hearts like engines
Racing till the daylight's done
We knew it wouldn't keep forever
So we held it in our lungs
Summer fever, summer fever
Burning brighter cause it's young
Verse
Drive-in movie, static on the screen
Paper cups of something sweet and green
You wrote my name in chalk out on the dock
August washed it off before eight o'clock
Fireworks cracking over black water
Nobody's kid, nobody's daughter
Just two shadows on a dying tank of gas
Trying to make the minutes never pass
Pre-Chorus
Tell me how a season
Can burn so bright then bend
Was it ever gonna last
Or were we chasing the end
Chorus
It's a fever, it's a fever
Ninety-nine degrees of young
Skin like sugar, hearts like engines
Racing till the daylight's done
We knew it wouldn't keep forever
So we held it in our lungs
Summer fever, summer fever
Burning brighter cause it's young
Bridge
Now September's got my sweater
And your number's changed its code
But some nights I still feel that fever
Ghost of gravel, ghost of road
Maybe growing up's just learning
Every heat wave has to break
Still I'd trade this quiet winter
For one more summer we could shake
Chorus
It's a fever, it's a fever
Ninety-nine degrees of young
Skin like sugar, hearts like engines
Racing till the daylight's done
We knew it wouldn't keep forever
So we held it in our lungs
Summer fever, summer fever
Burning brighter cause it's young
Burning brighter cause it's young
