The Summer

If I could bottle up the sea breeze

I would take it over to your house

And pour it loose through your gardens

So the hinges on your windows would rust and color

Like the boats pulled up on the sand for the summer

And your sweet clean closet goes stiff on the line

And there'd be sand in your pockets and nothing on your mind

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

But every year it gets a little bit harder

To get back to that feeling of when we were fifteen

And we could jump in the river upstream

And let the current carry us

To the beginning where the river met the sea again

And all our days were a sun drenched haze

While the salt spray crusted on the window panes

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

We should be living like we lived that summer

I wanna live like we live in the summer

We should be living like we lived that summer

I wanna live like we live in the summer

We should be living like we lived that summer

I wanna live like we live in the summer

And I'll remember that summer as the right one

The storms made the pavement steam like a kettle

And our first goodbye's always seem like hours

In the car parked in between my house and yours

And if the summer holds a song, we might sing forever

The winter holds a bite we'd never felt before

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

We should be living like we lived that summer

I wanna live like we live in the summer

We should be living like we lived that summer

I wanna live like we live in the summer

We should be living like we lived that summer

I wanna live like we live in the summer

But time is like the ocean

Where you can only hold a little in your hands

So we swim before we're broken

Before our bones become black coral on the sands

We should be living like we lived that summer

I wanna live like we live in the summer

We should be living like we lived that summer

I wanna live like we live in the summer

We should be living like we lived that summer

I wanna live like we live in the summer

So if I could bottle up the sea breeze

I would take it over to your house

And pour it loose through your garden