Fast-foward To Yesterday

Streetlamps buzz like broken time machines
Flicker gold across forgotten teens
We carved our names in wet cement
Swore the world was ours, and meant it then

Now I drive past ghosts in second gear
Every red light feels like yesteryear
We said forever, meaning for now
Guess forever's got a curfew somehow

Old mixtapes spinning on the dash
Songs skip where the promises crashed
Your voice still hides in static hums
Where every we has come undone

I still taste summers on my tongue
But every lyric feels unsung
The map's still folded in my glove
To places we grew out of

Can't rewind the miles we made
The roads don't run both ways
Fast-forward to yesterday–
Where everything stayed the same
Memory's got no play or pause
Just scratches on the cause
We pressed record on time and lost the sound
Fast-forward to yesterday, where we're still around

Those cracked steps by the old arcade
Still smell like rain and lemonade
We learned too late the trick of time–
It edits out the golden lines

Now every plan feels déjà vu
Just reruns in a brighter hue
I keep your laugh in stereo
But it fades each time I go

Can't rewind the miles we made
The roads don't run both ways
Fast-forward to yesterday–
Where everything stayed the same
Memory's got no play or pause
Just scratches on the cause
We pressed record on time and lost the sound
Fast-forward to yesterday, where we're still around

Can't rewind, can't stay
Fast-forward to yesterday
The reel's all frayed
But I hit play anyway