Backyards

Friday night, parents think I’m asleep

Climb out the window, Chucks hit the street

Your porch light’s flickering like a stage glow

Red cups and a boombox stealing the show

You’re in my old NOFX shirt, hair in your eyes

Laughing at nothing while the neighbors despise

(Pre-Chorus)

We’re too loud, too young, too dumb to care

Fireflies and feedback in the air

(Chorus)

These are the nights we’ll never get back

Screaming along to every track

Your head on my shoulder, cheap beer on my breath

Swearing this summer’s never gonna end with death

Whoa-oh-oh, turn it up louder

Whoa-oh-oh, we’re burning down the hours

Backyard parties and you — yeah, that’s all I need tonight

(Verse 2)

You flip your skateboard, land it perfect like always

I eat shit trying to impress you — you just applaud anyway

We talk about leaving this town in the fall

You say you’ll miss me — I say I won’t miss it at all

(Liar, liar, heart on fire)

(Pre-Chorus)

Cops flash their lights, everybody runs

But we stay on the trampoline kissing till the sun

(Chorus)

These are the nights we’ll never get back

Screaming along to every track

Your head on my shoulder, cheap beer on my breath

Swearing this summer’s never gonna end with death

Whoa-oh-oh, turn it up louder

Whoa-oh-oh, we’re burning down the hours

Backyard parties and you — yeah, that’s all I need tonight

(Bridge)

When we’re thirty and boring and paying the bills

I’ll still taste that night on you still

So let’s be stupid, let’s be seventeen

Let’s be the song that never leaves the machine

(Final Chorus — half-time then explode)

These are the nights we’ll never get back

But I swear I can feel ’em every time I look back

Your head on my shoulder, cheap beer on my breath

This summer’s never gonna end with death

Whoa-oh-oh, one last time louder

Whoa-oh-oh, we’re going out in a blaze of power

Backyard parties and you…

Yeah, backyard parties and you

That’s all I’ll ever need, dude.