summer in the town of nowhere

it’s the summer of sweet escape

let’s forget everything and everyone

and run away

from our small town

of small dreams

we can wander forever and forget what we left behind

we can lose our minds

no one leaves this town.

summer’s slipping away

let’s give our hearts a holiday

jump start your car

turning the music up

buy some cigarettes at a convenience store

make some new clichés of our own road trip

we ain’t got no place to be

hotel rooms and memories

driving around town

breaking glass and blaring sirens sounding off in the distance

drinks and cigarettes

smoke staining the air

and bright lights flashing through the dark skies

silty ash dusting onto our jeans

speeding through red lights into paradise

i don’t really feel like thinking

lost in my mind

just want to listen to our heartbeats

your hands on my waist

with stars on the ceiling

lying on hotel rooftops

your head next to mine

soft breath on my neck.

tangled eyelashes

brushed with stars

gazing at the midnight sky

breathing halos into the air

the sky’s falling and i hold you tight

damn, every night i die a little with you

barely breathin’

can’t get out of my head

where did love go?

hearts sinking

sticky summers

staying up till sunrise.

long nights, day dreams

we’d never have to say goodbye

if the world was ending,

right?

i’d do it again.

that summer of sweet escape

all of the nights and all of the days

watching it all fade away.

i need you here with me

by my side

we should do it all over.

it’s too late now

for summer nights in the town of nowhere

running away from our lives

strawberry kisses and cigarette halos

sticky honey margaritas and pink lemonade

watching the sun set then rise

holding onto each other like we’ll fall

forgetting everything and everyone

wish we could it it all over again.

another summer in the town of nowhere.

*this is the shortened poem of my submission “eunoia” https://theprose.com/post/317613/eu-no-i-a, where it was a bunch of random thoughts and lyrics i wrote down while listening to one of my favorite playlists. i thought it’d be fun to put the fragments all into one poem:) it’s a rough draft so it’s a li’l messy; i’ll probably go back and edit it. i also added a lyric or two from if the world was ending by jp saxe and julia michaels*

songs:

icarus by jeremy zucker

falling like the stars by james arthur

need you now-acoustic by dean lewis

sinking by jeremy zucker

dreams by bazzi

drugs and the internet by lauv

do re mi by blackbear

there’s no way by lauv and julia michaels

honey by nathan benjamin

all the kids are depressed by jeremy zucker

superhero by lauv

stay with me by ayokay and jeremy zucker

all of the stars by ed sheeran

day dreaming by jack & jack

hate u love u by olivia o’brien

strawberries & cigarettes by troye sivan

my my my! by troye sivan

youth by troye sivan

for him. by troye sivan

older by sasha sloan

#summer #forget #smalltown #fall #everything #sunrise #songs #breathing