Are You Listening

It lasted all summer
We'd drive through the night, find a place to park and discover
That the truth seems truer here in the dark
The records spun for days
Hiding from the cops in the cigarette haze
It was a game we played
Cul-de-sac kids with suburban accolades

Do you remember when the songs used to write themselves
We plugged in and it all came out
Are you listening, Are you listening
Now it takes to long and it ends too soon
The chorus just ain't the same without you
Are you listening, Are you listening

We were shot from a gun
Only 19 but the damage had been done
Hard as a stone but a cracking one
The tight rope swayed and swayed
High above the streets where we used to play
We were still kids that day
The Morning sun came and burned our castles away

I guess we're all burned out
There's nothing left to sing about
The drug store right by my house to third street with the windows down
They may have been paper crowns, but I swear, we owned this town