[Intro - Both] Streetlights come on early and we do not mind the dark [Verse 1 - Female rap] August gave out. The calendar flipped. We learned the fair Cheap cider, kickoff weather, a hand in the coat we wear Apples we pretended were the reason, hay after dark A truck that still smelled like summer when the trees went stark Leaf pile, costumes, candy on the counter, extra hour Smoke in my hair, store-bought rolls, the table's quiet power Everybody talking over the game, second helpings, tins Quiet morning, jacket on the hook, frost on the lens Now the lamps click on before we are ready for night Streetlights come on early. I still like the light because it means the road home has a witness and a guide and a man who drove it slow with me on his side I am not afraid of the early dark. I am afraid of a year that does not have this. Streetlights come on. I am here [Pre-Chorus - Female sung] Come on early stay on late we already chose this little fate [Verse 2 - Male country] I used to hate the early dark. It meant work in the cold This year it means she is in the cab when the lamps take hold of the county road like a string of small decisions Streetlights come on early. Those are our permissions to keep going without pretending the season did not change It changed. We changed with it. That is the range of a love that started when the heat gave out and learned a scraper, a hook, a table, a route home that takes the long way. I will take it again Streetlights come on early. I will wait for them the way I waited for her to leave the jacket and mean it. Dusk is not an ending. It is the packet the year hands you when it trusts you with the night I trust us. Turn the lamps on. We will be all right [Pre-Chorus - Male sung] Come on early stay on true we already chose the dark with you [Chorus - Both] Streetlights come on early and the road still knows our names August is a rumor and the frost already came Streetlights come on early heater low, jacket on the hook If the year is getting thinner look at what it took to get us here to get us home to get us sure Streetlights come on early and we want more of the dark that has a witness of the miles that have a pair Streetlights come on early we will still be there [Verse 3 - Female rap] I will go to the city. The lamps there never sleep These ones sleep and wake with the season. I will keep the difference. Streetlights come on early is a rural kind of honesty. The day admits it is behind and still offers a path. I can live on that path I can love a man and a road and a half of a year that taught me stay is not a trap Streetlights come on early. I will come back for the next frost and the next extra hour and the next foil pan I am not ashamed to carry. Text me when the first lamp pops on your road I will know what it means. I already know the code [Verse 4 - Male country] When the last lamp on this stretch blinks alive I think of every mile that had to arrive for her knee to be on mine in a cab that smells like July Streetlights come on early. That is why I do not mourn the lost daylight the way I did The light we kept was never only what the sky hid It was a hand in a pocket and a chair at a table It was a hook and a scraper and a love that was able to survive the early dark. Let the lamps come on We already did the work. The night is just the dawn of whatever we are building when the calendar turns [Chorus - Both, bigger] Streetlights come on early and the road still knows our names August is a rumor and the frost already came Streetlights come on early heater low, jacket on the hook If the year is getting thinner look at what it took to get us here to get us home to get us sure Streetlights come on early and we want more of the dark that has a witness of the miles that have a pair Streetlights come on early we will still be there [Bridge - Trade then Both] [Female] Let them click on [Male] Let the road glow [Female] Let the year thin [Male] Let us still go [Both] Streetlights come on early that is not the end that is the lamp we learned to tend [Verse 5 - Trade] [Female] Tell me the early dark is a place you want me in [Male] Tell me the early lamps are how we begin again when the next August tries to give out [Female] Streetlights come on early—say it out loud [Male] They come on. We stay on. That is the vow [Final Chorus - Both, loudest] Streetlights come on early and the road still knows our names August is a rumor and the frost already came Streetlights come on early heater low, jacket on the hook If the year is getting thinner look at what it took to get us here to get us home to get us sure Streetlights come on early and we want more of the dark that has a witness of the miles that have a pair Streetlights come on early we will still be there [Outro - Both] First lamp then the next drive home slow we are not finished yet Streetlights come on early and we do not mind the dark that has us in it, side by side
