Found a dusty shoebox in the back of my room Handwritten label, faded blue Summer in your messy writing Still smells like cheap perfume Clicked it into an old Walkman The wheels began to turn Then your laugh broke through the sky Like a match beginning to burn Every crackle, every hiss Keeps bringing back the things I miss We were sun on the dashboard Barefoot hearts on borrowed time Windows down, singing loud Like forever wasn't hard to find Now the colours blur together Like photographs left in the rain Every time that tape keeps turning I fall in love again with that cassette summer Ocean wind between the verses Your voice beneath the waves You said promise you'll remember Funny how memory fades A chorus kicks where we first kissed The ending's wearing thin But somehow all the broken pieces Still pull me back again Every silence, every sound Rings a little piece of you around We were sun on the dashboard Barefoot hearts on borrowed time Windows down, singing loud Like forever wasn't hard to find Now the colours blur together Like photographs left in the rain Every time that tape keeps turning I fall in love again with that cassette summer Maybe every perfect story Was meant to lose its frame Leaving only little echoes Calling out your name Maybe love was never broken Maybe time just changed the key And somewhere in that faded static You're still dancing next to me We were sunsets by the shoreline Golden skies and salt-stained skin Every memory grows softer But somehow never quite begins When the final song is over And the tape clicks to an end I'll rewind it one more time Just to hear your voice again That cassette summer Still plays inside my head... © 2026 Jared Ashworth (Lyrics & Music)
