Where the Sun Keeps Time

Verse

Mango juice running down my wrist like gold

Radio on the windowsill, static and soul

Seventeen and barefoot on the concrete still warm

Painted toes and bicycle chains, we run till the dark

Pre-Chorus

So catch me if the hour slips

Catch me on my tiptoe hips

We got nowhere left to be

Nowhere but this

Chorus

We're where the sun keeps time

Counting hours in lemon and lime

Golden skin, we're running blind

Where the sun keeps time

Where the sun keeps time

Verse

Firefly jars on the porch rail, humming low

Uncle's guitar and a rhythm nobody taught us to know

Coconut shells for maracas, dust on our feet

Every neighbor's window open, letting out the heat

Pre-Chorus

So catch me if the hour slips

Catch me on my tiptoe hips

We got nowhere left to be

Nowhere but this

Chorus

We're where the sun keeps time

Counting hours in lemon and lime

Golden skin, we're running blind

Where the sun keeps time

Where the sun keeps time

Bridge

Someday we'll be older, further from this street

Someday we'll trade these sandals for shoes on our feet

But I'll keep this hour folded like a photograph inside

The summer that never learned how to say goodbye

Chorus

We're where the sun keeps time

Counting hours in lemon and lime

Golden skin, we're running blind

Where the sun keeps time

We're where the sun keeps time

Painted in gold, we're running blind

Young forever, one more time

Where the sun keeps time