Verse
Gravel road, the windows down
Radio static from a fading town
Popsicle sticks and a melting hour
July sun stinging like a summer shower
Your bike thrown down in the tall grass bed
Cassette tape spinning in my head
Sixteen years and we don't know yet
How fast this all runs out
Pre-Chorus
Can we bottle up the heat somehow
Hold it in our hands right now
Before it slips between our fingers
Chorus
We're young and gold and burning fast
Through the noise we're built to last
Every second wide awake
Nothing here we'd take back
We're young and gold, the summer's ours
Through the noise, we're chasing stars
Let it ring, let it break
Through the noise, we made it last
Verse
Sparkler smoke and a screen door slam
Fireflies caught in an empty jam
Water tower painted with our names
Nothing here will ever look the same
Truck bed rattling down the county line
Half past nine and we're still feeling fine
Every summer swears it's the last one
But we don't believe it yet
Pre-Chorus
Can we bottle up the heat somehow
Hold it in our hands right now
Before it slips between our fingers
Chorus
We're young and gold and burning fast
Through the noise we're built to last
Every second wide awake
Nothing here we'd take back
We're young and gold, the summer's ours
Through the noise, we're chasing stars
Let it ring, let it break
Through the noise, we made it last
Bridge
Years from now I'll hear this song
And know exactly where I belong
Back on that road, the engine humming
Some things fade but this keeps coming
Back to me, back to you
Every gold thing we ever knew
Chorus
We're young and gold and burning fast
Through the noise we're built to last
Every second wide awake
Nothing here we'd take back
We're young and gold, the summer's ours
Through the noise, we're chasing stars
Let it ring, let it break
Through the noise, we made it last
