[Cast: V1 Inara Ras] [V1: warm intimate female lead, natural pitch, speech-shaped rhythm, smiling tone, relaxed phrasing, restrained vibrato] [Tempo: 120 BPM] [Meter: 4/4] [Key: A major] [Intro: eight bars, clean guitar, bass, upright piano] [Drums enter lightly] [Open window ambience, distant summer voices] [Verse 1: V1, relaxed and bright] We left our shoes beside the steps and ran across the grass. Somebody brought a radio that barely held a station. Mara dropped the strawberries. Jon blamed it on the heat. You stole one from the pavement, wiped it clean, and made me eat. The lake was colder than it looked. We jumped in anyway. Came out laughing, dripping, with no plan for half the day. [Pre Chorus: V1, tambourine enters] Nobody checked the hour. Nobody had to know. The sun kept hanging over us like it forgot to go. [Chorus: V1, wide and joyful] We were here in summer, sunlight in our hair. Bare feet on the pavement, music everywhere. We wrote our names in sidewalk chalk. The rain could take them later. We were here in summer. That was more than enough. [Instrumental Break: eight bars, melodic bass, guitar, kantele] [Vocalise: V1, light and smiling] Ah ah... Ooh... Hey... [Verse 2: V1, playful] The upstairs window wouldn't shut. We propped it with a book. Someone burned the garlic bread. Nobody cared to look. We crowded round the little fan and argued over songs. You danced with half a dish towel like the kitchen was your own. Somebody kissed somebody. Somebody missed the cue. Someone fell asleep outside and woke up damp with dew. We had nowhere we were going. Nothing we had to prove. Just one ridiculous evening with too many chairs to move. [Pre Chorus: V1, bass climbs] Nobody checked the hour. Nobody called it rare. We thought the night was ordinary because we were still there. [Chorus: V1, fuller harmony] We were here in summer, sunlight in our hair. Bare feet on the pavement, music everywhere. We wrote our names in sidewalk chalk. The rain could take them later. We were here in summer. That was more than enough. [Interlude: eight bars, piano and guitar, loose handclaps] [V1: playful adlibs] Ah ah... Hey... Ooh... [Bridge: V1, drums soften, bass continues] Stay another hour. The sky is barely blue. There's still some wine. There's still some bread. There's still a chair for you. Leave the dishes till tomorrow. Leave the windows open wide. Someone turn the radio up. Come sit outside. [Build: four bars, drums and tambourine return] [Final Chorus: V1, open joyful voice, soft self harmony] We were here in summer, sunlight everywhere. Wet footprints through the hallway, flowers in your hair. Write our names in sidewalk chalk. Let the rain come when it wants to. We were here in summer. We were here. We were here. [Post Chorus: V1 and soft doubles] Ah ah... Ooh... We were here. [Outro: guitar, piano, bass, distant laughter] [V1: smiling, close] Stay another hour. [End: warm final chord, room ambience, clean stop]
