It was late July, the pavement steamed
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We kissed like kids in a borrowed dream
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Your laugh cracked open something in me
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Like lightning stitched to memory
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We had no plan, just crooked roads
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A mixtape life in worn-down clothes
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I didn't know what I was missing
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Till I found it in your gaze - unblinking
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It wasn't perfect, but it was mine
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A messy verse in a sacred rhyme
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That was when I felt so alive
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Like the sky was something I could drive
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Windows down, hearts in overdrive
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We were chaos, we were clean
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Like a fever that set me free
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I've been chasing echoes ever since that time
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When I felt so alive
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You left a ghost inside my grin
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Every laugh since has let you in
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I've loved again - not quite the same
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They don't burn like your name
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I don't hate the life I've grown
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But there was magic in the unknown
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And sometimes I still close my eyes
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Just to haunt that other sky
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And I'm not sure if I'd go back
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But I'd give a year to feel that flash
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Cause that was when I felt so alive
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Like we could outrun the edge of time
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No plans, no maps, just neon signs
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We were young, unafraid to break
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Hearts like songs we'd never fake
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I keep replaying that old lullaby
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When I felt so alive
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We were loud, we were wrong
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But we fit like a favorite song
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Now the world's gone sharp and clean
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But I still miss the in-between
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That was when I felt so alive
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Like the dark was meant to shine
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And the hurt was worth the climb
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We were flawed, but we were light
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Burned so fast it felt like flight
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I still taste that summer every time
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I forget who I am - or why
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And I need to remember
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When I felt so alive
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