Better When You're Near

Verse

Transistor radio on the windowsill

Static and a saxophone, the air stands still

Lemonade sweating rings on the picnic table

Nineteen and certain we were built for fable

Pre-Chorus

Do you still hear that same slow tune

Do you still feel that gold July noon

Tell me it wasn't just a phase we're leaving

Chorus

Everything's better when you're near

Summer stays longer when you're here

The whole wide world slows down to amber gold

Everything's better when you're near

Verse

Drive-in movies, popcorn on the dash

Fireflies signaling in Morse code flash

Barefoot on the hood, counting up the stars

Nobody's watching, so nothing feels like ours

Pre-Chorus

Do you still hear that same slow tune

Do you still feel that gold July noon

Tell me it wasn't just a phase we're leaving

Chorus

Everything's better when you're near

Summer stays longer when you're here

The whole wide world slows down to amber gold

Everything's better when you're near

Bridge

Now the porch light's just a memory glow

Twenty summers packed in boxes, row by row

But I found your postcard tucked inside a book

Said meet me where the river bends and took

Chorus

Everything's better when you're near

Summer stays longer when you're here

The whole wide world slows down to amber gold

Everything's better when you're near

Still better when you're near