Hold the Neon Close

Verse

Gravel road still warm at midnight

Bottle caps like coins in the grass

Someone's speaker crackling static

Nineteen summers move so fast

Your bike thrown down by the water

Ripples catching all the light

We were nothing, we were golden

Running barefoot, running blind

Pre-Chorus

Can we bottle up this hour

Before the sky turns grey

Tell me we don't have to let it fade away

Chorus

Hold the neon close, hold it in your hands

Every flicker, every spark we planned

Sun goes down but we don't have to go

Hold the neon close, don't let go

Hold the neon close

Verse

Ferris wheel lights on the water

Cherry ice melting down your wrist

Twenty kroner for the arcade

Held your hand, I nearly missed

Fireflies caught in a mason jar

We let them loose before the dawn

Nothing lasts but we don't care yet

Summer's ours, and we hold on

Pre-Chorus

Can we bottle up this hour

Before the sky turns grey

Tell me we don't have to let it fade away

Chorus

Hold the neon close, hold it in your hands

Every flicker, every spark we planned

Sun goes down but we don't have to go

Hold the neon close, don't let go

Hold the neon close

Bridge

Years from now when the streetlights find us

Older, further from that shore

I'll still taste the salt and sugar

Still hear that song through an open door

We didn't know it then, we know it now

This was the one, this was the crown

Chorus

Hold the neon close, hold it in your hands

Every flicker, every spark we planned

Sun goes down but we don't have to go

Hold the neon close, don't let go

Hold the neon close, hold the neon close