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6 Summers lyrics
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Intro
Six summers, yeah
Verse 1
Rooftop off Halsted, cooler full of off-brand soda My boy filming vertical, said the algorithm owes us Bluetooth speaker rattling a beat we heard this morning Forty-seven likes and we already actin' corporate Overdue tuition sitting in my spam folder Homie pawned his PS5 just to cop a vintage Motorola Everybody laughing, but the rent is still tomorrow And the only thing we're building is a highlight reel of borrowed time
Pre-chorus
How many summers we been saying "next year though"? How many Julys just blurred into the same clothes?
Chorus
Six summers from now, who you gonna be? Same rooftop, same talk, same empty pockets, G? Six summers from now, who you gonna be? Tonight feels infinite but the tab is never free Six summers, six summers
Verse 2
Kia got a payment due, she bought the nails instead Four hundred on a fit she wore exactly once for threads My man turned down a warehouse gig for one more studio session Betting clout against a clock that don't respect the likes he's getting I ain't different, opened up a savings once in February Withdrew it all by March to split a table at the steakhouse Now my credit score and my ambitions got the same pulse Flatline, but the group chat says we're fine
Pre-chorus
How many summers we been saying "next year though"? How many chances just dissolved like cheap prosecco?
Chorus
Six summers from now, who you gonna be? Same rooftop, same talk, same empty pockets, G? Six summers from now, who you gonna be? Tonight feels infinite but the tab is never free Six summers, six summers
Verse 3
Rewind two years - different rooftop, same excuses I had a mentor who said "learn a trade," I left him on delivered Could've done the coding bootcamp, but I chose the pool party Could've stacked that refund check, but Cancun sounded smarter And the worst part isn't losing money, nah It's realizing I been photocopying the same July since I was seventeen, just swapping out the shoes Same avoidance, better camera, newer filter on the bruise
Bridge
Picture this - it's six years forward Apartment with a mattress on the floor and one lamp Scrolling back through memories of nights that felt eternal Except now everybody's scattered and the rooftop's been demolished And I'm sitting here like, wait All that time I spent performing "having fun" I forgot to build the version of myself I actually wanted And that silence hits different when there's no group chat to blame
Verse 4
I see two roads splitting at this parking lot tonight One's me at thirty with a lease and a portfolio I'm proud of Skills that compound quietly like savings in a Roth The other me at thirty, still borrowing deposit money Still explaining gaps on resumes, still cappin' on the timeline Both versions started here, same sneakers, same summer The only difference? One of them decided this July That missing one night out was cheaper than missing one more year
Verse 5
Back on the rooftop, nothing cinematic changed I just put my phone down, told my boy I'd skip the afterparty Opened up a tab - not a bar tab, a browser tab Bookmarked three certifications and a budgeting app It's not a movie scene, nobody clapped I still ate the cheap pizza, still laughed at the same jokes But something in my chest shifted, quiet, like a compass Pointing somewhere past the content, past the clout Past the version of tonight that I been selling to myself It's still summer. I just finally stopped pretending that's enough
Chorus
Six summers from now, who you gonna be? Not the same rooftop, not the same story, see? Six summers from now, I'm gonna be free Tonight ain't infinite, so I'm spending it on me Six summers, six summers
Outro
Six summers
Inside the recording
Six summers, yeah
How many summers we been saying "next year though"? How many Julys just blurred into the same clothes?
Six summers
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