Fever

Verse

Popsicle stick stuck to the porch rail

Radio static on a dirt road tale

Your knees on the dashboard, windows down

Sixteen and gold in a one-stoplight town

Lightning bugs blinking like a slow applause

We stole the whole summer, broke every clause

Sunburn on my shoulders, salt in my hair

That gravel pit water, we didn't care

Pre-Chorus

Tell me how a season

Can burn so bright then bend

Was it ever gonna last

Or were we chasing the end

Chorus

It's a fever, it's a fever

Ninety-nine degrees of young

Skin like sugar, hearts like engines

Racing till the daylight's done

We knew it wouldn't keep forever

So we held it in our lungs

Summer fever, summer fever

Burning brighter cause it's young

Verse

Drive-in movie, static on the screen

Paper cups of something sweet and green

You wrote my name in chalk out on the dock

August washed it off before eight o'clock

Fireworks cracking over black water

Nobody's kid, nobody's daughter

Just two shadows on a dying tank of gas

Trying to make the minutes never pass

Pre-Chorus

Tell me how a season

Can burn so bright then bend

Was it ever gonna last

Or were we chasing the end

Chorus

It's a fever, it's a fever

Ninety-nine degrees of young

Skin like sugar, hearts like engines

Racing till the daylight's done

We knew it wouldn't keep forever

So we held it in our lungs

Summer fever, summer fever

Burning brighter cause it's young

Bridge

Now September's got my sweater

And your number's changed its code

But some nights I still feel that fever

Ghost of gravel, ghost of road

Maybe growing up's just learning

Every heat wave has to break

Still I'd trade this quiet winter

For one more summer we could shake

Chorus

It's a fever, it's a fever

Ninety-nine degrees of young

Skin like sugar, hearts like engines

Racing till the daylight's done

We knew it wouldn't keep forever

So we held it in our lungs

Summer fever, summer fever

Burning brighter cause it's young

Burning brighter cause it's young