Say It Like You Mean the Sunrise

Verse

Screen door slams and the gravel road is calling

Bikes on their sides where we left them after falling

Popsicle sticks turning sticky in the sun

Nowhere to be till the streetlights say we're done

Pre-Chorus

So throw your hands up like the summer's ending

Cause it might be, but we don't care

We're eighteen and the world keeps bending

Golden light in our messy hair

Chorus

Say it like you mean the sunrise

Loud and gold and wide open eyes

Kick the dust up, let the whole world know

We were young and we let it show

Say it like the morning's ours

Like we're chasing every falling star

Say it like you mean the sunrise

Say it like you mean it

Verse

Radio crackling on the tailgate at midnight

Fireflies blinking like a slow motion skyline

You stole my flannel, said the night got cold

We're writing our names where the paint's still gold

Pre-Chorus

So throw your hands up like the summer's ending

Cause it might be, but we don't care

We're eighteen and the world keeps bending

Golden light in our messy hair

Chorus

Say it like you mean the sunrise

Loud and gold and wide open eyes

Kick the dust up, let the whole world know

We were young and we let it show

Say it like the morning's ours

Like we're chasing every falling star

Say it like you mean the sunrise

Say it like you mean it

Bridge

Someday we'll be old and gray

Telling kids about this day

But right now the sky's on fire

And nothing's higher than right here

Chorus

Say it like you mean the sunrise

Loud and gold and wide open eyes

Kick the dust up, let the whole world know

We were young and we let it show

Say it like the morning's ours

Like we're chasing every falling star

Say it like you mean the sunrise

Say it like you mean it

Say it like you mean the sunrise