Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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original music (M021119) by "raiders of the lost heart"


Vocals by Sonja


Seventeen/Lyrics:


[Verse 1]
We drove with the windows down,
through streets we thought we’d never leave.
Cheap cigarettes, your old guitar,
and hearts too young to see.
We swore that we were different,
that time would never touch us then…
God, we were infinite
that summer at seventeen.

[Chorus]
Summer at seventeen,
everything felt like a movie scene.
Golden light and reckless dreams,
running wild through broken streets.
And I still hear your voice sometimes
when the night gets quiet around me…
nothing has ever felt the same
since summer at seventeen.

[Verse 2]
We carved our names into the pier,
said we’d come back every year.
But life moved faster than we knew,
and somehow you disappeared.
Now everybody’s grown apart,
different cities, different lives…
but some part of me still lives
in those July nights.

[Bridge]
Maybe we were never meant to last…
maybe some things only shine once.

[Final Chorus]
Summer at seventeen,
before the world turned everything bittersweet.
Before goodbye meant losing people
you thought you’d always keep.
And I still chase those nights sometimes
in memories that won’t leave me…
nothing has ever felt so alive
as summer at seventeen.

[Outro]
Windows down… warm night air…
and us pretending time was endless.


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