///*****/// [Intro] Summer on the radio Somebody laughing far away [Verse 1] We had a Chevrolet with a broken door And a tape deck full of dreams We knew every word to every song And every word was what we meant There was gasoline and grape soda And a highway going anywhere And your bare feet on the dashboard And the whole sky in your hair [Pre-Chorus] We did not know we were living The years we would talk about We just knew the night was endless And the light would not go out [Chorus] We were sixteen and bulletproof Immortal in the summer heat Screaming at the water tower With the whole town at our feet Nothing had gone wrong yet Nothing had been lost We were sixteen and bulletproof And we never asked the cost [Verse 2] Now Tommy sells insurance And Marie moved out to Maine And the drive-in is a parking lot And the water tower's plain But sometimes in the traffic When the sun comes in just right I can smell the cut grass burning On a nineteen-eighties night [Pre-Chorus] And I am back inside that Chevy With my whole life in the road And a girl who thought I hung the moon Before she ever had to know [Chorus] We were sixteen and bulletproof Immortal in the summer heat Screaming at the water tower With the whole town at our feet Nothing had gone wrong yet Nothing had been lost We were sixteen and bulletproof And we never asked the cost [Verse 3] We swore that we would never be them With their mortgages and rules We swore we'd keep the windows open And we'd never lock the doors And I broke that oath by twenty-five With a suit and a company car But there is a boy inside my chest Who still knows where the good roads are And on certain August evenings When the crickets start to sing He takes the wheel for half a mile And I let him have the thing [Pre-Chorus] Because he paid for all of this With everything he had He gave me all his summers And he never once looked back [Bridge] Here is to the ones who made it Here is to the ones who tried Here is to the boy in the mirror Who has not entirely died He is still out there running With the windows open wide [Guitar Solo] [Final Chorus] We were sixteen and bulletproof Golden in the summer heat Singing at the water tower With the whole world at our feet Nothing had gone wrong yet Nothing had been lost And I would pay it all again And never mind the cost We were sixteen and bulletproof [Coda] So if you're sixteen somewhere And you think it lasts forever Do not let a soul correct you Let it last a little longer Take the long way to the water Let the tape play out the side Let the whole thing burn like gasoline And take me for the ride [Outro] Summer on the radio Somebody laughing far away Turn it up a little louder And let it stay Let it stay a little longer Let it stay Turn it up and let it stay Sixteen and bulletproof
