July In Your Eyes

You were born where summer lingers

Rain on hot sidewalks

Cherry ice

You trace constellations with your fingers

Say

"Cancer kids just feel too much sometimes"

Your hair up

July on your shoulders

Sunburn lines and a thrift-store dress

Laughing as the fireworks smolder

You say

"This mess is happiness"

July in your eyes

All that blue and burning sky

You pull the tides inside my chest

Rise and fall

You never rest

If this is love

Then let it flood

Let it rise

I lose myself

In July in your eyes

You keep old receipts in your journal

Pressed a yellow flower there for luck

Tell me every scar is internal

But you still flinch at simple touch

You read me my fate from a coaster

"You're gonna stay

" you half-confess

Draw a little crab on my shoulder

Whisper

"Promise you won't love me less"

July in your eyes

All that blue and burning sky

You pull the tides inside my chest

Rise and fall

You never rest

If this is love

Then let it flood

Let it rise

I lose myself

In July in your eyes

You say

"Someday

I'll be colder"

I say

"Summer lives in you"

You say

"People leave when it gets older"

I say

"I was born to see this through" (oh yeah)

July in your eyes

All that blue and burning sky

You pull the tides inside my chest

Rise and fall

I don't resist

If this is love

Then let it flood

Let it rise

Whatever comes

I'll stay under your tides

I choose your storms

And July in your eyes