Roswell Mill Lyrics

There's not much to do in a Georgia summer

So we just work from nine to four

Preston picks me up at 8 am

Playing songs I don't remember anymore

We change into swimsuits beneath our sweaters

Watch the clock move twice as slow

Cause when the sky turns gold, we'll hit the road

Down the hill and to the riverbed to go

For a sunset swim

And I'm thinking as the light grows dim

We won't stay forever

Hiking Blue Ridge Mountains

To impress the boys we like

Then staying up with them all night

I said, "God, I'm gonna miss this"

Practicing first kisses

In the shallows of the Roswell Mill

Lauren keeps hating her hair and dyes it

Then inks a world map on her arm

And Luke laughs that I'm too scared to drink

Then he panics when he hears his parents' car

Drew hustles hard to get to college

Lia floats above it all

Emma's just so hurt from fighting words 

That she isn't sure her passion's still her call

And as time runs out

All that I can think about is

We won't stay forever

Hiking Blue Ridge Mountains

To impress the boys we like

Then staying up with them all night

I said, "God, I'm gonna miss this"

Practicing first kisses

In the shallows of the Roswell Mill (shallows of the Roswell Mill)

Drew's got a full ride offer

The kind he can't turn down

And Emma's family's settled somewhere back in Texas by now

Lia and Lauren ran far

From the whole damn circus scene

Now home just doesn't feel the same it did at seventeen

There's not much to do in a Georgia summer

When all your friends have left for good

It's the first break after freshman year

And it's quiet when I pass our neighborhood

I look for the swimsuit I bought last summer

Pull the car out of the lot

And I drive with sunrise in my eyes

Playing songs I could've sworn that I forgot

Coming here again

I can't help but think about back then

We didn't stay forever

Hiking Blue Ridge Mountains

To impress the boys we liked

Then staying up with them all night

I think, "God, I really miss this"

As the sunlight glistens

On the shallows of the Roswell Mill (shallows of the Roswell Mill)

Said we'd live forever

Taking off the sunroof

Just to scream into the night

And watching for the red moon's height

And now, God, I really miss this

I can see our shadows

In the shallows of the Roswell Mill (shallows of the Roswell Mill)

(God, I'm gonna miss this)

We could stay forever

Driving to the seaside

Where we gaze up at the night

The shooting stars and airplane lights

I said, "God, I'm gonna miss this"

Praying for first kisses

In the shallows of the Roswell Mill

God, I miss the Roswell Mill