We Talk Until the Streetlights Blink

Verse

Parking lot glow and a busted-up radio

Your feet on the dash, my hand on the wheel

Cherry slush melting down to nothing

Windows down so the whole block can feel

You've got popsicle words stuck to your tongue

Telling me secrets you've never told anyone

Curfew's a rumor when the air smells like rain

And the crickets keep time like a train

Pre-Chorus

So what if the sun already left us

What if the whole town's asleep

We're not ready, we're not ready

To let this Tuesday go cheap

Chorus

We talk until the streetlights blink

Until the porch lights start to think

It's time to go, but we don't go

We just sit here, letting summer flow slow

We talk until the streetlights blink

Like we could stop the sky from turning pink

Verse

Gas station Sundaes and a torn-up map

Your sister's old car with the broken AC

We're planning trips we'll never take

To places that don't exist except in me and you

Sixteen feels like it could last forever

Your laugh right now is the only weather

We keep the windows fogged with talking

Two shadows on the sidewalk, walking

Pre-Chorus

So what if the sun already left us

What if the whole town's asleep

We're not ready, we're not ready

To let this Tuesday go cheap

Chorus

We talk until the streetlights blink

Until the porch lights start to think

It's time to go, but we don't go

We just sit here, letting summer flow slow

We talk until the streetlights blink

Like we could stop the sky from turning pink

Bridge

Someday we'll be older, further

Living lives we can't predict

But right now it's just this corner

Just this hour we won't forget

I'll remember the smell of asphalt

The static hum of your voice so soft

Some things don't need to last forever

They just need this one summer

Chorus

We talk until the streetlights blink

Until the porch lights start to think

It's time to go, but we don't go

We just sit here, letting summer flow slow

We talk until the streetlights blink

Like we could stop the sky from turning pink