[Verse]
Hang dog you sitting and counting nameless stars
And when you look down you re beginning to fall away
You re dried up like an august creekbed and mounted in an album
With some photos of your summer friends
I can t tell what the note on the back said
You re moving like a poem And it hurts to see you going
[Chorus 1]
I recall the smell of summer on your skin
We were seventeen and everything was pounding and it wouldn t stop
It s hard to put to words what I was thinking then
I don t know, we were alive or something
[Verse 2]
Browned off sitting amidst the endless cars
And when you stall out
They re beginning to pull away
You dried up like an august creekbed
I mounted in an album
With some photos of your summer friends
I can t tell what the note on the back said
You re moving like a poem
And it hurts to see you going
[Chorus 2]
I remember licking ice cream off your chin
We were seventeen
And everything was pounding and it wouldn t stop
It s hard to put to words what I was thinking then
I don t know, we were in love or something
[Solo]
I recall the smell of summer on your skin
We were seventeen
And everything was pounding and it wouldn t stop
It s hard to put to words what I was thinking then
I don t know, we were alive or something