The pavement's breathing waves of heat The smell of fresh cut summer grass We didn't know that we could feel A moment meant to last I see the dust motes in the light Dancing in your golden hair And in that glow, everything was right Like we were without care And we swore we'd never change Promises we couldn't keep Caught in that golden afternoon So beautiful and deep That golden afternoon, it lives inside my head Every single word we didn't say instead We watched the shadows growing long across the lawn Knowing that this perfect day would soon be gone The ice cubes melting in our glasses The soundtrack of the neighborhood We built our castles in the hours Right where we stood Your laughter echoed in the stillness A perfect, fragile, fleeting sound Before the evening brought its chillness To our sacred ground And we swore We'd never change Promises we couldn't keep Caught in that golden afternoon So beautiful and deep, that golden afternoon Every single word we didn't say instead We watched the shadows growing long across the lawn Knowing that this perfect day would soon be gone Was it real or just a dream I made? A perfect memory, beginning to fade A snapshot lost in time's relentless flow The last place I remember, before I had to go That golden afternoon, it lives inside my head Every single word we didn't say instead We watched the shadows growing long across the lawn Knowing that our perfect day was finally gone