August hotel room

Verse 1

Room 214, a keycard in my hand

One last night before we go our separate ways again

Your suitcase lying open by the window to the sea

Half-packed with summer clothes and memories of you and me

The curtains moved with every breath the ocean breeze would take

Like they were trying to hold on before the morning came

Your favorite song was playing softly from the radio

Funny how the saddest songs are always playing low

The city shimmered underneath a sky of fading gold

The kind of sunset that reminds you nothing stays the same for long

You smiled at me across the room, but something felt unspoken

Like two hearts standing quietly before they're finally broken

Pre-Chorus

I wanted time to lose its way

To leave us in this August day

Where nothing had to end too soon

Beneath this borrowed summer moon

Chorus

August hotel room, don't let go tonight

Hold these walls around us till the morning light

Outside the waves keep rolling to the shore

Inside I know we'll never be the same anymore

Every photograph, every laugh we knew

Lives forever somewhere between me and you

If love could stay the way the sunsets bloom

We'd never leave this August hotel room

Verse 2

Coffee cups were waiting on the windowsill at dawn

The silence said the words neither of us could say out loud

Your sweater still carried the scent of ocean air

A little piece of summer I wished I could wear

You traced a little heart into the fog upon the glass

Then watched it slowly disappear, just like the days had passed

We talked about the future like it lived a thousand miles away

Pretending we had endless time instead of just today

I memorized the freckles on your sun-kissed skin

Afraid I'd wake tomorrow and forget where they had been

The clock kept moving anyway, no matter how I prayed

Some goodbyes arrive in whispers, not in hurricanes

Pre-Chorus

If I could freeze one single night

I'd choose the way you held me tight

Before September found the door

And asked us to become something more

Chorus

August hotel room, don't let go tonight

Hold these walls around us till the morning light

Outside the waves keep rolling to the shore

Inside I know we'll never be the same anymore

Every photograph, every laugh we knew

Lives forever somewhere between me and you

If love could stay the way the sunsets bloom

We'd never leave this August hotel room

Bridge

Maybe some hearts are meant to meet

Only for a season sweet

Like fireworks that paint the sky

Beautiful because they have to die

Maybe love is not forever long

Maybe it's a single song

That keeps on playing years from now

Whenever summer comes around

Final Chorus

August hotel room, I still hear your name

Echoing through hallways that will never be the same

The ocean keeps on singing to the empty shore

As if it's waiting for us both once more

Every golden evening, every morning blue

Carries little pieces of the life we almost knew

And though the seasons changed too soon

Part of me still lives inside that August hotel room

Outro

The keycard slips from my hand...

The hallway lights grow dim...

Outside, the waves keep rolling...

And somewhere, another summer begins.