Barefoot

Bare feet beating down the block
Summer heat and an old boombox
Sunset hanging over the rooftops
We had nowhere to be, we had all the time

Sneaking out when the streetlights came
Calling each other by our nicknames
Every little night felt like a hurricane
We didn't know it then, but we were living our best days

And we didn't need a reason
Didn't need to know where we were going
We just followed where the music played
And let the whole night take us away

Oh, take me back to those days
When a Friday night could last forever
We'd dance in the street, we'd sing out of tune
And swear we'd be friends forever

Oh, we were young, we were wild
With the whole wide world in our eyes
If I could go back, I wouldn't change a thing
I'd just run barefoot through those streets again

Old photographs and faded shirts
Grass stains on our favorite jeans
We'd sit on the curb until the morning
Talking 'bout the lives we hadn't lived

Someone always had a guitar
Someone always knew the words
And we'd sing along beneath the stars
Like there was nothing else on Earth

We didn't care about tomorrow
We didn't know the taste of sorrow
Every door was ours to open
Every dream was still unbroken

Oh, take me back to those days
When a Friday night could last forever
We'd dance in the street, we'd sing out of tune
And swear we'd be friends forever

Oh, we were young, we were wild
With the whole wide world in our eyes
If I could go back, I wouldn't change a thing
I'd just run barefoot through those streets again

Maybe that's the funny thing about growing up
You don't know you're making memories
Until they're memories

Now we're scattered like leaves in the wind
Different cities, different lives we're living
But somewhere underneath it all
We're still those kids running down the block

So take me back to those days
When a summer night could last forever
We'd dance in the street, we'd sing out of tune
And swear we'd be young forever

Oh, we were young, we were wild
With the whole wide world in our eyes
And if I could go back, I wouldn't change a thing
I'd just run barefoot through those streets again

Bare feet beating down the block
Old songs playing from an open window
We didn't know how fast time could run
We were just young
We were just young