Lyrics: Mingai
Music: Mingai
Arranger: Mingai
Grass stains on my knees
Ice cream dripping down my wrist
Mom yelling from the screen door
“Five more minutes”
That was bliss
Trading cards on broken steps
Chalk dust printed on my hands
Thought the world was our small cul-de-sac
Thought forever meant that sand
Take me back to those backseat summers
Windows down on a two-lane road
Counting cows
Getting lost in numbers
Believing every story we were told
I keep driving through these grown-up worries
But the map in my heart still folds
Right back
The backseat summers I still hold
Hand-me-down blue bike
Wobbling past the corner store
Pocket full of stolen gum
Heart beating like a secret war
Sleepovers and late cartoons
Talking till the TV glowed
Swore we’d never ever change
Funny how that promise broke
Take me back to those backseat summers
Windows down on a two-lane road
Counting cows
Getting lost in numbers
Believing every story we were told
I keep driving through these grown-up worries
But the map in my heart still folds
Right back
The backseat summers I still hold