Stateside (Version 2)

Verse

Popsicle truck parked two doors down the block

Your flip-flop dragging on the sidewalk crack

Catching lightning bugs in a mason jar lid

Radio static playing back and forth like this

Soda crinkled foil, your elbow knocking mine

Fireflies blinking out our own private code

We were the only kids who danced to nothing

Chasing shadows as if they owed us home

Pre-Chorus

So what do you call it when the summer never ends

Is this a season or just a feeling that won't quit

Tell me how do we keep the glow of July on our skin

Chorus

We're stateside, floating on the blue horizon line

Stateside, where the sunset paints us gold every time

Nothing to lose and everything wide open

This is the year we never want to end, no goodbyes, only ocean

Stateside, dancing barefoot in the neon

Stateside, our whole lives stretching out like highway signs

Verse

Sleeping on the tailgate of your old beat-up truck

Stars so crowded it feels like the whole sky's talking back

We drove with the windows down till the sun came up over the trees

Singing that one song we wrote in a parking lot breeze

I still remember every laugh and every little scare

The way you called me out when I was scared to jump off the pier

We were bulletproof, invincible, nothing could stop us

Just a pair of reckless hearts racing like an engine gone loose

Pre-Chorus

So what do you call it when the summer never ends

Is this a season or just a feeling that won't quit

Tell me how do we keep the glow of July on our skin

Chorus

We're stateside, floating on the blue horizon line

Stateside, where the sunset paints us gold every time

Nothing to lose and everything wide open

This is the year we never want to end, no goodbyes, only ocean

Stateside, dancing barefoot in the neon

Stateside, our whole lives stretching out like highway signs

Bridge

Maybe someday I'll be back here again with a family of my own

Standing on the dock watching you and me in another one of these lifetimes

And if that's true then every scar was worth it just to know this

We were born for catching fireflies, we were born for stateside

Chorus

We're stateside, floating on the blue horizon line

Stateside, where the sunset paints us gold every time

Nothing to lose and everything wide open

This is the year we never want to end, no goodbyes, only ocean

Stateside, dancing barefoot in the neon

Stateside, our whole lives stretching out like highway signs