Say It Like You Mean It — The Midnight Foxes

Verse

Streetlight buzzing on the diner sign

Two straws left in a cherry cola glass

You were laughing with that gap-tooth grin

Talking fast about a movie from the past

Your jacket smelled like rain and cinnamon

I was twenty minutes late but stayed till three

You drew a heart in the fog on the window

Didn't think that you'd be looking back at me

Pre-Chorus

So tell me now, was it the neon

Or the way the whole world slowed

Cause something shifted when you looked at me

Like you already know

Chorus

Say it like you mean it

Underneath this dying streetlight glow

Say it like you mean it

Slow, so slow, don't let this feeling go

Every word could be forever

So say it like you mean it, and I'll know

Verse

Now it's June and the radio's playing static

Windows down on Copperfield Lane

Your hand finds mine on the gearshift

Like it's always known the way

We keep driving past our exit

Just to make the night stay wide

Every mile a little braver

Every silence on our side

Pre-Chorus

So tell me now, is it the taillights

Or the way you hold my hand

Cause something's building past the small talk

Something I don't understand

Chorus

Say it like you mean it

Underneath this dying streetlight glow

Say it like you mean it

Slow, so slow, don't let this feeling go

Every word could be forever

So say it like you mean it, and I'll know

Bridge

Maybe I've been scared to say the real thing

Scared that saying it might make it end

But you're still here at four a.m., still holding on

So here's my hand, here's where we begin

Chorus

Say it like you mean it

Underneath this dying streetlight glow

Say it like you mean it

Slow, so slow, don't let this feeling go

Every word could be forever

So say it like you mean it, and I'll know

Say it like you mean it

I already do, I already know