[Intro] [Verse 1] I was waiting on a platform With my jacket zipped tight Midnight humming through the wires Under broken station lights Had my headphones on low Just killing empty time Then a melody found me Like it knew where I was hiding It took me back to summer Back to gravel on my shoes Back to laughing in a backseat With nothing left to lose Back to someone I stopped missing Or at least I thought I had Till one line hit my chest And brought the whole damn memory back [Pre-Chorus] Funny how a song Can open up a door To a room inside your heart You don’t visit anymore [Chorus] When the song comes on Everything comes back Every smile, every tear Every ghost from the past The little things you lost The moments you forgot Come rushing through the speakers Like they never really stopped Yeah, it can break your heart It can turn your whole world on Make you feel alive again When you thought that feeling’s gone It’s more than words and melody It’s a light when hope feels drawn You remember who you used to be When the song comes on [Verse 2] It can sound like your first love In a faded county fair Taste like cheap soda And smoke in the August air It can look like your mama smiling From the kitchen down the hall Or your best friend riding shotgun Before you drifted and forgot to call It can take a Tuesday night And make it feel like seventeen Make a cracked old photograph Come dancing through a dream All the things we walk right past All the beauty we don’t see Comes alive for three minutes In a perfect little key [Pre-Chorus] Funny how a chorus Can make the hard world soft Can remind a tired heart Of everything it thought it lost [Chorus] When the song comes on Everything comes back Every smile, every tear Every ghost from the past The little things you lost The moments you forgot Come rushing through the speakers Like they never really stopped Yeah, it can break your heart It can turn your whole world on Make you feel alive again When you thought that feeling’s gone It’s more than words and melody It’s a light when hope feels drawn You remember who you used to be When the song comes on [Bridge] One note can be a time machine One beat can change your mind One voice can pull you from the edge And make you feel less alone tonight It’s a prayer without a church It’s a letter never sent It’s the sound of all the love You didn’t know you still had left [Breakdown] So turn it up Let it hurt Let it heal Let it work Let it find What you buried Let it bring back What you carried [Final Chorus] When the song comes on Everything comes back Every road, every dream Every hand you should’ve grabbed The little things you lost The moments you forgot Come shining through the speakers Like a fire in the dark Yeah, it can break your heart It can turn your whole world on Make you feel alive again When you thought that feeling’s gone It’s more than words and melody It’s the place we all belong You remember why you’re still here When the song comes on [Outro] When the song comes on When the song comes on You remember who you are When the song comes on
