SUMMER ON PAUSE

Oh-oh

Feels like yesterday

But it ain’t

Found an old picture on my camera roll

Bad haircut, cheap shades, everybody stole

Everybody’s time, everybody’s fries

Saying we’d be friends for the rest of our lives

We had no money, but we had all night

Missed the last ride, said we’d be alright

Now I see your names and I stop for a second

Funny how the years move without your permission

I don’t wanna go back

I just wish I could visit

For a minute, for a minute

Before we all got so busy

Can we put the summer on pause?

Stay right here like we did before

No big plans, no keeping score

Just us on the floor, laughing till our sides hurt

Put the summer on pause

Before everybody grew up and got lost

I know we can’t get back what we had

But I miss when life was that simple

Oh-oh, that simple

Oh-oh, put the summer on pause

Now it’s “we should meet up” in a group chat

Three months later, nobody writes back

Everybody’s working, everybody’s tired

Talking ’bout the days we used to stay out till five

And I know that change is part of the deal

Got bills, got plans, got things to feel

But sometimes I hear that song from back then

And for three minutes, we’re all there again

I don’t wanna go back

I just wish I could visit

For a minute, for a minute

Before we all got so busy

Can we put the summer on pause?

Stay right here like we did before

No big plans, no keeping score

Just us on the floor, laughing till our sides hurt

Put the summer on pause

Before everybody grew up and got lost

I know we can’t get back what we had

But I miss when life was that simple

Maybe we’ll get there

Maybe next year

Maybe we’ll stop saying

“We should” and just appear

One night, one song

One drive with the windows down

We don’t need to be seventeen

To feel like us right now

Can we put the summer on pause?

Stay right here like we did before

No big plans, no keeping score

Just us on the floor, laughing till our sides hurt

Put the summer on pause

Even if it’s only for a couple of hours

I know we can’t get back what we had

But we can make a little more of it now

Oh-oh

Just for a little while

Put the summer on pause