[Verse 1] I still think of you Like summer, soft and bright and out of reach And every time I try to move on I fall back into the dream The sky is painted overhead The clouds were never taught to leave Everything was made for smiling Nothing here was made to grieve [Pre-Chorus] I thought that time would thin you out Until there wasn't much to lose But absence only changed its shape It never stopped resembling you [Chorus] Somewhere it's still summer Somewhere nothing had to end Somewhere I am standing with you Before I learned to miss you yet Here the colors never wither Here the daylight doesn't change I keep getting older somewhere While you stay exactly the same [Instrumental Break – Mournful Expressive Violin] [Verse 2] Plastic colors on the water Artificial grass stays green I wonder if remembering Is just another way to dream There's a doorway without daylight At the edge of all this blue Every time I stand before it I imagine walking through Not because I know what's in there Not because I want to hide Just because I sometimes wonder If you're somewhere on that side [Pre-Chorus] People say that time keeps moving As if movement means release I've carried you through every year And never learned what leaving means [Chorus] Somewhere it's still summer Somewhere nothing had to end Somewhere I am standing with you Before I learned to miss you yet Here the colors never wither Here the daylight doesn't change I keep getting older somewhere While you stay exactly the same [Instrumental Break – Violin Solo, Slowly Building] [Bridge] Maybe memory isn't mercy Maybe that's the cruelest part It doesn't keep the whole of someone Only what can break your heart It kept the warmth and kept the laughter Let the harder details blur Now I'm grieving something perfect That I'm not sure ever was And if I finally stop returning Would that mean I let you go? Or would I only lose the last place Where you're still someone I know? [Long Instrumental Passage – Aching Violin] [Final Chorus] Somewhere it's still summer Somewhere nothing had to end Somewhere you still turn toward me Like there's time to spend again But the colors look much older Every time I find this place Maybe nothing lasts forever Maybe memory just waits I keep getting older somewhere That's the part I can't outrun You're forever in that summer I'm the one who has to come undone [Outro] The sky is painted overhead The clouds don't ever move I used to think that meant forever Now I know It only means They aren't real [Long Mournful Violin Outro]
