[Intro – Clean Guitar] [Vocal B] Do you remember summer nights When the world was ours to waste? [Verse 1 – Vocal B] Back when every Friday felt like freedom And every street became a stage We were writing future plans in marker Like we’d never turn the page We were louder than the traffic Faster than the setting sun Never thinking that tomorrow Would eventually come [Verse 2 – Vocal A] Now your name shows up on my phone screen Less than it did before Life keeps building different highways Leading us to different shores Still I keep those old recordings Buried somewhere in a drawer Proof that we were once immortal At least that's what we thought for sure [Pre-Chorus – Vocal A & B] And the years keep moving forward Like they’ve got somewhere to be While the memories stay frozen Exactly where they used to meet [Chorus – Vocal C] We're just ghosts in the parking lot Shadows of the kids we were Still alive inside the echoes Even if the picture blurs Every laugh and every promise Every midnight we forgot We're still out there in the distance Ghosts in the parking lot [Post-Chorus – All] Oh-oh, somewhere in the distance Oh-oh, ghosts in the parking lot [Verse 3 – Vocal B] I drove by our old hangout last week Everything had changed its face New lights hanging from the rooftop Nothing left of our old place But for a second I could hear us Through the noise of passing cars Like the city kept a record Of exactly who we are [Bridge – Vocal C, soft then rising] Maybe growing up was never losing Maybe leaving isn't gone Maybe every chapter ending Means the story still goes on [Vocal A] We were reckless [Vocal B] We were young [Vocal C] And somehow that's enough [Final Chorus – All, huge] We're just ghosts in the parking lot Shadows of the kids we were Still alive inside the echoes Even if the picture blurs Every laugh and every promise Every midnight we forgot We're still out there in the distance Ghosts in the parking lot [Outro – Vocal B & A] Somewhere under faded streetlights Somewhere underneath the stars [Vocal C soft] We'll always be Ghosts in the parking lot.
