Florida

Lyrics & Music by Steven Jackson & Brighter Things

Everything looks smaller from up above - I remember when you told me how it works
From a window seat in my new jeans, standin' up - I was bigger than that place that you called Florida, Florida

There's gators & Indians & hammerheads too, and oceans big as anything I knew
But everything looks smaller from up above, so I ain't afraid here holdin' on to you. No I ain't afriad here holdin' on to you

Lift me over lips of waves kissin' at my feet
I remember every ray that put the red on me
In Florida, Florida, Florida

We had ten good summers just you and me - towels, tans & sand between our toes
And girls in next to nothin' layed out perfectly - for that year when I was old enough to know

Kiss me when there's no more sun
And only stop to breathe
I remember every one who layed their lips on me
In Florida, Florida, Florida

Collar bones all coppertone, holdin' water in the hollow of these hand that found a home
where golden brown turns the color of clean sand and we learned to trace the places where we don't have no tans, no tans

If everything looks smaller from up above - I picture God straining hard to see
Tiny boys and buildings and tiny little loves - but God knows that;s not the way it felt to me, God knows it's not the way it felt to me

Lift me over lips of waves
Crashing at my feet
I remember every ray that put the red on me

And kiss me when there's no more sun
And only stop to breathe
I wish I could recover every grain
of sand that sifted through my hands
and fell down on the beach and then
got stolen by the sea
In Florida, Florida, Florida ...