Polaroid Summer

Verse 1

I remember that July night

Streetlights humming over broken lines

You were leaning out the passenger side

Singing songs from another time

Your hair blowing through the window

Like the world was spinning fast

We were kids who thought forever

Was something we could grasp

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Pre-Chorus

And I swear I saw the future

In the glow of your dashboard light

But the future’s just a stranger

When you’re seventeen at night

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Chorus

Life goes like a rollercoaster

Up so high then down again

We were screaming through the summer

Like we’d never reach the end

Polaroid hearts in motion

Every moment burning bright

If I could I’d ride it over

Just to live that one more night

Polaroid, Polaroid hearts,

Polaroid, Polaroid summer

Of love

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Verse 2

You said someday we’d be famous

Or at least escape this town

But dreams get quiet after midnight

When the real world comes around

Now the songs sound different somehow

And the road feels twice as long

But every time the radio plays

I swear you’re singing along

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Pre-Chorus

And the years go like a highway

All the exits rushing past

You don’t know you’re in the moment

Till the moment’s in the past

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Chorus

Life goes like a rollercoaster

Up so high then down again

We were screaming through the summer

Like we’d never reach the end

Polaroid hearts in motion

Every moment burning bright

If I could I’d ride it over

Just to live that one more night

Polaroid, Polaroid hearts,

Polaroid, Polaroid summer

Of love

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Bridge

And maybe we were reckless

Maybe we were young

Maybe all the best days

Disappear when they’re done

But somewhere in the headlights

Of a memory I see

That version of forever

You believed in next to me

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Final Chorus

Life goes like a rollercoaster

Turns you upside down sometimes

But the nights we felt immortal

Still echo through my mind

Polaroid hearts still beating

In the dark of every year

And I’d ride it all again

Just to have you here

Polaroid, Polaroid hearts,

Polaroid, Polaroid summer

Of love

Polaroid summer, Polaroid hearts,

Polaroid love, Polaroid summer

Of love, love, Polaroid summer!!!