I Swear It Lived Right Here

I Swear It Lived Right Here lyrics

Verse 1

Sunset on the cul-de-sac
Painted sedan in park
My hands on the wheel
Like I’m holding a mark

Rubber-hose tollbooth
Smiles with one loose screw
Cardboard lampposts lean
Like they’re tired too

The radio plays
A horn and a horn and a horn
I laugh at the dashboard
Then I yawn

Pre-Chorus

Green was a rumor
Painted over white
I kept my place
In the brake-light night

You said move along
I said maybe I might
But the gate just blinked
And held me tight

Chorus

Honk if you remember green
(honk if you remember green)
Honk if you remember green
Just before the paint got mean

Honk if you remember green
(honk if you remember green)
I swear it lived right here
Then it slipped clean

Verse 2

I rolled one inch
And the booth went slow
Like a paper moon
In a carton glow

A kid on the corner
Waved a fishbone wand
Said this road was built
From a broken song

I checked my mirror
For the old parade
Only my face
In the color fade

Pre-Chorus

Green was a rumor
Under the dust
You can call it fate
Or a bad old trust

I kept my seat
With a shrug and a grin
If the world is a joke
Let me drive it in

Chorus

Honk if you remember green
(honk if you remember green)
Honk if you remember green
Just before the paint got mean

Honk if you remember green
(honk if you remember green)
I swear it lived right here
Then it slipped clean

Bridge

Yeah, I seen that booth by the curb, yeah, it talk with a grin
Cardboard sky over my head, I been parked in the spin
Horn in the radio, loopin’ my name through the tin
If green was a promise, then I’m the one left within

Driver seat faded, I’m patient with the ache
Countin’ my losses by the wiggle in the brake
Funny how the small town keep a giant heart in a fake
So I nod to the sign like, “I know what it takes”

Chorus

Honk if you remember green
(honk if you remember green)
Honk if you remember green
Just before the paint got mean

Honk if you remember green
(honk if you remember green)
I swear it lived right here
Then it slipped clean

Outro

Cardboard lamplight
Fading slow
I honk once back
Then let it go

Lyrics © Boulevard. Written for Arturo, an AI artist.