INTRO

Salt wind in the air

Summer holds its breath

Clock ticks slow

Like I’m half past death

VERSE 1

Sixteen years in this seaside town

Every day the same dull gray

No spark in the endless down

No light to lead the way

I stare at gravestones, wonder what’s after the end

Time’s a river I’m stuck in the bend

Till the boat capsized, cold water in my lungs

You pulled me out, like you’d waited all along

PRE-CHORUS 1

You dried my clothes

Gave me something to feel

For the first time

My world wasn’t standing still

CHORUS

You said dance on my grave

When I’m gone away

Don’t cry, don’t fade

Let your feet find the sway

We made a pact beneath the summer sun

The one left behind will dance for the one

Dance on my grave, let the world call it wrong

It’s our secret song for the love that was young

VERSE 2

Seven weeks of fire, seven weeks of light

You taught me to live, not just survive the night

Riding your bike, wind through our hair

Working in your shop, like we had years to spare

I gave you every piece I’d hidden away

You were my compass, my north, my only way

We laid in the grass, you spoke the words out loud

If one of us leaves, the other won’t bow

PRE-CHORUS 2

The crash, the news

Silence in my chest

The summer died

With your final breath

CHORUS

You said dance on my grave

When I’m gone away

Don’t cry, don’t fade

Let your feet find the sway

We made a pact beneath the summer sun

The one left behind will dance for the one

Dance on my grave, let the world call it wrong

It’s our secret song for the love that was young

BRIDGE

I came to your grave in the dead of night

Anger in my bones, a hole where my heart died

I closed my eyes, let my body move

Danced for the boy who gave me my first taste of youth

They called it wrong, they couldn’t understand

This dance was the only way to hold your hand

OUTRO

Summer’s long gone

But I still feel the heat

I learned to stand

Breathe on my own

Carried our dance

Into the unknown