Verse
Popsicle stick on the dashboard glass
Melting gold while the streetlights pass
Your bike thrown down in the wet cut grass
Nineteen minutes till the curfew's past
Salt on our skin from the quarry dive
Radio catching a station alive
We don't know where this year's gonna land
Just your fingers laced through mine like sand
Pre-Chorus
Can we stay in the crack of the sky
Where the day and the dark collide
Something good always starts to fall apart
Chorus
It's better when it breaks
Wide open, all the light escapes
Cracked glass, golden haze
This is how the good stuff stays
Hold your breath, let it shake
Every ending's a hairline break
We're young, we're wide awake
It's better when it breaks
Verse
Fireworks stuttering over the pier
Sparks in your eyelashes, disappear
Gas station slushies, seventeen cents
Counting change on the hurricane fence
Screen door slamming, mosquito hum
Nowhere we're needed, nowhere we're from
Every summer's a bridge we burn
Just to feel it, just to learn
Pre-Chorus
Can we stay in the crack of the sky
Where the day and the dark collide
Something good always starts to fall apart
Chorus
It's better when it breaks
Wide open, all the light escapes
Cracked glass, golden haze
This is how the good stuff stays
Hold your breath, let it shake
Every ending's a hairline break
We're young, we're wide awake
It's better when it breaks
Bridge
Maybe nothing gold was built to last
Maybe that's the reason it goes so fast
Ten years down some dusty road
I'll still hear this, still feel that glow
The tape runs out, the film still burns
Every fracture is how the light returns
Chorus
It's better when it breaks
Wide open, all the light escapes
Cracked glass, golden haze
This is how the good stuff stays
Hold your breath, let it shake
Every ending's a hairline break
We're young, we're wide awake
It's better when it breaks
