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
And I'll remember that summer
as the right one
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
And pour it loose
through your garden