Hang dog you sitting and counting nameless stars   And when you look down you're beginning to fall away      You dried up like an august creekbed   I mounted in an album   With some photos of your summer friends   I can't tell what the note on the back said   You're moving like a poem   And it hurts to see you going      I recall the smell of summer on your skin   We were seventeen   And everything was pounding and it wouldn't stop   It's hard to put to words what I was thinking then   I don't know, we were alive or something      Browned off sitting amidst the endless cars   And when you stall out   They're beginning to pull away      You dried up like an august creekbed   I mounted in an album   With some photos of your summer friends   I can't tell what the note on the back said   You're moving like a poem   And it hurts to see you going      I remember licking ice cream off your chin   We were seventeen   And everything was pounding and it wouldn't stop   It's hard to put to words what I was thinking then   I don't know, we were in love or something      I recall the smell of summer on your skin   We were seventeen   And everything was pounding and it wouldn't stop   It's hard to put to words what I was thinking then   I don't know, we were alive or something