[Intro – Glittery bells, tape click]
Yeah…
2016…
[Verse 1 – Soft, nostalgic]
2016 playing through my phone,
Headphones on, world felt known.
Summer nights, windows cracked,
Didn’t know what we had back then.
2016 on a Polaroid frame,
Smiles blurry but they stayed the same.
No stress yet, just dreams and heat,
Every song felt incomplete without you next to me.
[Pre-Chorus – Warm lift]
Back when time moved slow,
Back when hearts didn’t know.
Every memory hits me clean,
Every color looks like 2016.
[Chorus – Catchy, sweet]
2016, play it back for me,
Late-night drives, just you and me.
2016, stuck in my head,
Every song feels better said.
2016, if I close my eyes,
I’m right back in that time.
Yeah, 2016, you still live in me.
[Verse 2 – Light hip-hop sing-rap]
2016 in the group chat glow,
Inside jokes only we would know.
Snap stories, blurry nights,
Laughing till the sunrise light.
2016 when love felt new,
Didn’t overthink what we’d do.
Heart on sleeve, nothing to lose,
Every feeling felt true.
[Pre-Chorus – Build soft]
We didn’t know it would fade,
Didn’t know it’d turn this way.
But every time I hear that beat,
I’m seventeen in 2016.
[Chorus – Bigger, claps layered]
2016, take me back again,
Before the pressure, before the end.
2016, golden days,
Burned so bright in simple ways.
2016, frozen scene,
You, me, and a memory.
Yeah, 2016, you still live in me.
[Bridge – Soft R&B sway]
If I could stay one more night,
Same old song, same streetlight.
No rewind, but I still see
Who I was in 2016.
[Final Chorus – Full, joyful]
2016, every beat still hits,
Every hook still feels like this.
2016, hands in the air,
Didn’t care, didn’t scare.
2016, young and free,
Still a part of who I’ll be.
Yeah, 2016, you still live in me.
[Outro – Faded tape, bells]
2016…
Never really left.
