The Summer

If I could bottle up the sea breeze I would take it over to your house
 And pour it loose through your garden
 So the hinges on your windows would rust and colour
 Like the boats pulled up on the sand for the summer
 And your sweet clean clothes would go stiff on the line
 And there'd be sand in your pockets and nothing on your mind
 But every year it gets a little bit harder
 To get back to the feeling of when we were fifteen
 And we could jump in the river upstream
 And let the current carry us to the beginning where
 The river met the sea again
 And all our days were a sun-drenched haze
 While the salt spray crusted on the window panes
 We should be living like we lived that summer
 I wanna live like we live in the summer
 We should be living like we lived that summer
 I wanna live like we live in the summer
 We should be living like we lived that summer
 I wanna live like we live in the summer
 The storms made the pavement steam like a kettle
 And our first goodbye always seemed like hours
 In the car park in between my house and yours
 And if the summer holds a song we might sing forever
 Then the winter holds a bite we'd never felt before
 We should be living like we lived that summer
 I wanna live like we live in the summer
 We should be living like we lived that summer
 I wanna live like we live in the summer
 We should be living like we lived that summer
 I wanna live like we live in the summer
 But time is like the ocean
 You can only hold a little in your hands
 So swim before we're broken
 Before our bones become black coral on the sand
 We should be living like we lived that summer
 I wanna live like we live in the summer
 We should be living like we lived that summer
 I wanna live like we live in the summer
 We should be living like we lived that summer
 I wanna live like we live in the summer
 If I could bottle up the sea breeze I would take it over to your house