We Don't Need the Dark

Verse

Gravel road, the windows down

Radio catching a fading town

Bare feet up on the dashboard glass

July running faster than we ever ask

Bonfire smoke still on your shirt

Twenty dollars and a map of dirt

Headlights off, just stars instead

Nothing but engine ticking overhead

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it building in your chest

That golden kind of restlessness

Something wide open, calling us in

Chorus

We don't need the dark to burn this bright

Sun's still up past midnight

Running on a borrowed kind of light

We don't need the dark

Every summer's got a spark

We don't need the dark tonight

Verse

Lake water warm around our knees

Trading secrets with the fireflies and trees

Your laugh gets caught up in the breeze

Nineteen and reckless, easy as you please

Paper cups and a cassette tape hiss

Counting every star we're bound to miss

Time moves slow when you're young like this

Nothing feels like it could go amiss

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it building in your chest

That golden kind of restlessness

Something wide open, calling us in

Chorus

We don't need the dark to burn this bright

Sun's still up past midnight

Running on a borrowed kind of light

We don't need the dark

Every summer's got a spark

We don't need the dark tonight

Bridge

One day we'll be older, further gone

Chasing echoes of this one long dawn

But right now the field is ours to keep

Wide awake while the whole world sleeps

Chorus

We don't need the dark to burn this bright

Sun's still up past midnight

Running on a borrowed kind of light

We don't need the dark

Every summer's got a spark

We don't need the dark tonight