Owl City

Released: June 1, 2018

Songwriter: Adam Young

Producer: Adam Young

[Verse 1]
We used to talk all night and not say a word
When I would hop into your red Firebird
And, man alive, we would drive just to drive around town
‘Cause in your car we understood and figured out
That everything changes
Everything changes

[Chorus]
Tell me why I look back and I wanna cry
Sometimes I feel like we grew up too fast
You and I had the time of our younger lives
Sometimes I sigh and think about the past
But it’s alright, cause everything changes

[Verse 2]
A basement full of boys building homemade bombs
AJ cut his finger and said “go get your mom”
I saw it all through the windshield of my white truck, Troy
Lotsa ups, lotsa downs, lots of growing up
‘Cause everything changes
Everything changes

[Chorus]
Tell me why I look back and I wanna cry
Sometimes I feel like we grew up too fast
You and I had the time of our younger lives
Sometimes I sigh and think about the past
But it’s alright, cause everything changes

[Bridge]
Hey Billy, remember when
It was just us (it was just us)
Pretending we were Nash and Coral
On the school bus
I wouldn’t change a thing, ‘cause everything changes

[Pre-Chorus]
Life is different now and that’s okay with me
I moved away and you started a family
But deep inside you and I are still the same kids
‘Cause you’re my brother and that won’t ever change
Even though everything changes

[Chorus]
Tell me why I look back and I wanna cry
Sometimes I feel like we grew up too fast
You and I had the time of our younger lives
Sometimes I sigh and think about the past
But it’s alright

There’s a new guest room in my parents’ home
The carpet got replaced a couple years ago
Because it isn’t my bedroom anymore
There’s new photographs on the freezer door
But it’s alright, ‘cause everything changes

[Outro]
We should talk all night and not say a word
Let me hop into your red Firebird again

Originally making songs in his basement for his friends as Sky Sailing, Adam Young then discovered synth music and became Owl City, releasing two relatively unpopular albums Maybe I’m Dreaming and Of June before making his hit single “Fireflies” which made his third album as Owl City, Ocean Eyes a hit.

After this worldwide success he put on two more albums, All Things Bright and Beautiful in 2011, and The Midsummer Station in 2012. In 2014 he released an EP, Ultraviolet, composed of 4 songs whom one would appear on his following album, Mobile Orchestra. Retiring from Owl City in 2016 to focus on Adam Young Scores, a new project made of orchestral soundtracks about historic events, he reappeared in 2017 to tease his upcoming new album Cinematic, with the release of a series of three EPs, called Reel 1 , 2 and 3.

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