Lyric

Midnight rolls across the avenue

Windows glow like distant stars

I’m driving past the quiet harbor

With old songs in the car

Summer hides inside the dashboard

Dusty tapes and faded names

Every street I used to run through

Still remembers who I became

Time keeps moving like the tide

Pulling days out to the sea

But somewhere in the city lights

A younger voice calls back to me

Where did all the summers go

With their golden open skies

I can hear them in the engine

I can see them in my eyes

Every dream I left unfinished

Every road I didn’t take

Turns to music on the shoreline

And keeps me wide awake

Coffee shops are closing slowly

Curtains drawn against the rain

Someone laughs across the crossing

Like an echo from a train

I was chasing something brighter

Than the moon above the bay

Now I find it in the small things

That I nearly threw away

Maybe life is not a highway

Maybe not a perfect song

Maybe all the broken detours

Were the places I belonged

How far must I travel

Just to meet myself again

In the mirror of the water

I can almost call my name

All the years I thought were fading

All the nights I couldn’t save

Rise like rhythm from the darkness

And carry me over the waves

Turn the radio softer

Let the morning come through

I am older than my memories

But they still feel new

Where did all the summers go

With their golden open skies

I can hear them in the engine

I can see them in my eyes

Every dream I left unfinished

Every road I didn’t take

Turns to music on the shoreline

And keeps me wide awake