Slow Down Summer

Album: Where We Started (2021)
Charted: 43
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  • Your shades on my dashboard, shoes on my floorboard
    Lived in that old Chevrolet
    We were two Roman candles, too hot to handle
    Two hearts that couldn't be tamed

    Yeah, we knew what was comin'
    And laughed it off like it was nothin'
    Oh, but time kept on runnin' and runnin' away

    Yeah, what can I say
    We had our hopes up and the windows down
    Fallin' fast in a one-lane town
    Tangled up with your lips on mine
    Never seen a brighter green in those eyes and
    I put my jacket on your shoulder
    Wishin' the weather wasn't gettin' colder
    Letting you go, holdin' onto each other
    Closin' our eyes, sayin', "Slow down, summer"
    (Slow down, summer, summer, summer, summer)

    I was beggin' those leaves, "Don't go changin' on me"
    Friday night lights, stay away
    But the fourth of July was just smoke in the sky
    And our sunburns were startin' to fade

    Yeah, we knew what was comin'
    And laughed it off like it was nothin'
    Oh, but time kept on runnin' and runnin' away

    Yeah, those were the days
    We had our hopes up and the windows down
    Fallin' fast in a one-lane town
    Tangled up with your lips on mine
    Never seen a brighter green in those eyes and
    I put my jacket on your shoulder
    Wishin' the weather wasn't gettin' colder
    Letting you go, holdin' onto each other
    Closin' our eyes, sayin', "Slow down, summer"
    (Slow down, summer, summer, summer)

    Why couldn't you slow down, summer?
    Just wait a minute, we weren't finished
    Can we just hold onto each other?
    Take me back to the beginnin'
    Oh
    Slow down, summer (summer, summer, summer, summer)
    Slow down, summer (summer)

    Yeah, those were the days
    We had our hopes up and the windows down
    Fallin' fast in a one-lane town
    Tangled up with your lips on mine
    Never seen a brighter green in those eyes and
    I put my jacket on your shoulder
    Wishin' the weather wasn't gettin' colder
    Letting you go, holdin' onto each other
    Closin' our eyes, sayin', "Slow down, summer"
    Oh (slow down, summer, summer, summer)
    Slow down, summer, yeah

    Why couldn't you slow down, summer?
    Why couldn't you slow down?
    Slow down
    Why couldn't you slow down, summer? Writer/s: Ashley Glenn Gorley, Jesse Vernon Frasure, Rhett Akins, Sean Maxwell Douglas, Thomas Rhett Jr. Akins
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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