When The Streetlights Came On

Verse 1

We were kings of the cul-de-sac

Baseball cards in a paper bag

Racing bikes past the water tower

Trying to make one summer last another hour

Saturday morning, cereal bowls

Cartoons playing while the whole world slowed

Twenty bucks felt like a fortune then

And every road went somewhere we had never been

Pre-Chorus

We thought the town was all there was

We thought forever waited up for us

Every backyard, every empty street

Was a universe beneath our feet

Chorus

Back when the streetlights came on

That was the signal to run back home

Dirty shoes and scraped-up knees

Living like the world belonged to me

Back when the nights felt long

And every radio played our song

We didn't know those days would go

We just knew we never wanted to grow

Verse 2

Video tapes from the corner store

Rewinding movies we had seen before

Summer rain on the window screen

Everything looked bigger when we were seventeen

Actually younger, maybe ten or twelve

Building whole worlds by ourselves

Treehouse plans and comic books

Secret places nobody else would look

Pre-Chorus

We had no money, we had no plans

Just cheap guitars and rubber bands

And every dream we ever made

Could fit inside one summer day

Chorus

Back when the streetlights came on

That was the signal to run back home

Dirty shoes and scraped-up knees

Living like the world belonged to me

Back when the nights felt long

And every radio played our song

We didn't know those days would go

We just knew we never wanted to grow

Bridge

Now the old playground looks so small

The schoolyard fence isn't high at all

The road we swore went on for miles

Takes about five minutes now

But sometimes when the evening falls

And somebody's mother starts to call

I swear for a second I can hear

All those voices like they're still right here

Instrumental

Final Chorus

Back when the streetlights came on

Before we knew that time moved on

Before goodbye meant anything

Before we understood what growing brings

Back when the nights felt long

And every little thing felt strong

We didn't know we'd miss it so

We just knew we never wanted to go

Outro

Bikes lying down beside the lawn

One by one the houses turning on

Someone calling from an open door

"Come inside..."

Just five more minutes.

Just five more.