[Style: Nostalgic acoustic singer-songwriter, emotional, raw] [Verse 1] I drove past that old playground just the other day The one where we used to chase the afternoon away We built a castle in the sandbox out of dirt and stone Back before the world got heavy, before we were fully grown Now we wear these adult masks and carry all this pride But there's a secret part of me I can never seem to hide [Chorus] 'Cause the little boy in me still misses the little girl in you The one with scraped-up knees and eyes of summer blue We traded in our bicycles for complicated lives And learned to hide our feelings behind polite disguises But when the sun goes down and the world fades out of view The little boy in me still misses the little girl in you [Verse 2] I saw you at the coffee shop, all dressed up in gray You gave a little polite nod and looked the other way You had a briefcase in your hand and a schedule on your mind Leaving all those careless, golden memories behind I wanted to run over and just ask you to go play But time has built a fence we can't climb over today [Chorus] 'Cause the little boy in me still misses the little girl in you The one with scraped-up knees and eyes of summer blue We traded in our bicycles for complicated lives And learned to hide our feelings behind polite disguises But when the sun goes down and the world fades out of view The little boy in me still misses the little girl in you [Bridge] Sometimes I hear you laughing in the echoes of the wind And I wonder if you ever want to be a kid again To drop the heavy armor and the walls we had to build And run across that open grass where time just stood still [Guitar Solo] [Chorus] Yeah, the little boy in me still misses the little girl in you The one with scraped-up knees and eyes of summer blue We traded in our bicycles for complicated lives And learned to hide our feelings behind polite disguises But when the sun goes down and the world fades out of view The little boy in me still misses the little girl in you [Outro] Yeah, he still misses you Just the little boy in me Missing the little girl in you [Fade Out]
