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Sip-Sixteen (2016) Was Yesterday lyrics
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Intro
Funny how a Tuesday in July can haunt you ten years later Swore I'd leave that summer in the dust, look at me, still tracing
Verse 1
Sneakers on the blacktop, Pokémon Go had the whole block walking Strangers in the park at midnight, nobody thought it was awkward Vine compilations looping while the popcorn got cold Water bottle flipping on the counter, seventeen years old Snapchat streaks at three hundred, felt like currency we earned Shared a charger with a stranger, neither of us concerned Phone still had a headphone jack, tangled cords in every pocket Burned a playlist to a flash drive, hid it like a locket
Chorus
Two-thousand-sixteen was yesterday, swear that decade went to smoke Blink and all the bottle flips are fossils, that's the cruelest joke Sip-sixteen was yesterday, and I can taste the summer still Ten years dissolved like sugar, but the sweetness never will
Verse 2
Mannequin Challenge froze the cafeteria for a whole lunch bell Teacher in the doorway, arms crossed, tryna not to laugh as well AUX cord was a scepter, pick the wrong song and you're finished "What are those?!" across the hallway, screaming till our voices thinned it Gas was two bucks flat, drove in circles for the sake of driving Mall food court on Friday night, no reservation, just arriving "Damn, Daniel" on repeat, my cousin memorized the cadence Didn't doom-scroll once, I swear the screen felt more like patience
Chorus
Two-thousand-sixteen was yesterday, swear that decade went to smoke Blink and all the bottle flips are fossils, that's the cruelest joke Sip-sixteen was yesterday, and I can taste the summer still Ten years dissolved like sugar, but the memory never will
Bridge
I called it the worst year once, complained like it owed me something Now I'd trade my fastest Wi-Fi for that slow buffering Look, we had no clue we were living in the golden footage Every "this year sucks" was prophecy we couldn't prove yet
Verse 3
Somewhere between then and now the group chat lost its magic Fifteen people turned to four, the rest just turned to static Vine died and took the weird with it, the internet got corporate Six-second clips of pure joy, now every post is sponsored content The barbershop don't play the same, the playlists got too careful Cookout speakers used to rattle rib cages, beautiful and wasteful I still catch myself mid-laugh remembering a face I haven't called Small talk got expensive when we all built different walls
Chorus
Two-thousand-sixteen was yesterday, swear that decade went to smoke Blink and all the bottle flips are fossils, that's the cruelest joke Sip-sixteen was yesterday, and I can taste the summer still Ten years dissolved like sugar, but the feeling never will
Verse 4
Nah, I'm not stuck in the past, I'm just grateful I was present Thirty seconds of a sunset I forgot to capture, that's the present My daughter asked me "What's a Vine?" and man, I felt the distance Pulled up a compilation, watched her laugh, and closed the difference Same park, same bench, different summer, same cicadas humming She caught a digital Pikachu and I swore the years were running Funny how a Tuesday in July still finds a way to hold you 2016 was yesterday, and yesterday just told you
Outro
Still taste that summer, still taste that summer Sugar on the tongue, it never goes away Still taste that summer, still taste that summer Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday
Inside the recording
Funny how a Tuesday in July can haunt you ten years later Swore I'd leave that summer in the dust, look at me, still tracing
Two-thousand-sixteen was yesterday, swear that decade went to smoke Blink and all the bottle flips are fossils, that's the cruelest joke
Still taste that summer, still taste that summer Sugar on the tongue, it never goes away
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