Play It Back

[Intro] (ooh, ooh-ooh) (bah-dah, bah-dah-dah) [Verse 1] You spent your last two quarters on those sodas We claimed the curb before the streetlights hummed Said you'd never change for anybody Scratched my name across your homework like a song [Chorus] Play it back the way we used to know Sixteen, streetlight, taking it slow Every soft vow stitched into the harmony Don't let it go [Verse 2] Now you're clocking out past one, keys jangling tired Your voice sits lower, rarely finds a tune Replies arrive in fractured little flashes Where your laugh once lit the whole room through [Chorus] Play it, play it back the way we used to know Sixteen, sixteen, streetlight, taking it slow Every soft vow, soft vow, stitched into the harmony Don't, don't let it go [Bridge] Maybe growing up was never a straight line Maybe it's a tape that keeps skipping home Searching for the place we still sound younger Before the noise learned every note we owned [Final Chorus] Play it, play it, play it the way we used to know Sixteen, sixteen, streetlight, taking it, taking it slow Every soft vow, every soft vow, still a harmony Don't, don't, don't let it go [Outro] Somewhere the tape still spins for us Play it back before the silence wins (ooh... ooh...)