Back to 2016

We were younger, chasing daylight,

Phones lit up with shaky hands.

Laughing loud in cheap headphones,

Dreams too big to understand.

Every song felt like a promise,

Every night was something new.

We didn’t know what time would take,

All we knew was me and you.

Before the world got heavy on my chest,

Before I learned what growing up meant.

I’d close my eyes just to feel,

How simple everything was then.

Take me back to 2016,

Where the nights felt endless, bright and free.

We were lost but we believed,

In every version of our dreams.

Take me back to 2016,

Before goodbye became routine.

I still hear that melody,

Yeah, part of me is still sixteen

Old photos on a cracked screen,

Late replies, no sense of time.

Writing notes about forever,

Thinking everything was fine.

We were brave without a reason,

Saying “we’ll be more someday”.

Didn’t know that life would test us,

In a hundred different ways.

Before mistakes had so much weight,

Before regrets would learn my name.

I’d run back just for a moment,

Just to feel that spark again.

Take me back to 2016,

Where the nights felt endless, bright and free.

We were lost but we believed,

In every version of our dreams.

Take me back to 2016,

Before goodbye became routine.

I still hear that melody,

Yeah, part of me is still sixteen.

Now I’m standing in the present,

Stronger, but a little tired.

I’ve learned things I never wanted,

Lost some things I once admired.

But there’s magic in remembering,

Who I was before the fall.

2016, you remind me,

I was enough before it all.

I don’t want to live in the past,

But I’ll keep the light it had.

Those memories still guide me home,

When the future feels too fast.

Take me back to 2016,

Where the nights felt endless, bright and free.

We were lost but we believed,

In every version of our dreams.

Take me back to 2016,

Before goodbye became routine.

I still hear that melody,

Yeah, part of me is still sixteen.