this is how you make me feel

this is the way you make me feel.

like the fireworks on the fourth of july

rocketing higher and higher and higher

with people drunk on their echoing light cheering

the explosion like the birth of a new year

like the hot, beating sun is my heart

keeping me alive / keeping us alive

and despite their predictions,

it's never going out.

this is the way you make me feel.

like teenage rebellion

kisses shared in the back of cars at night

profanity, fists pumping, windows rolled down

caffeine like alcohol in our blood

like exposed shoulders, tiki torches and golden tans

summer afternoons that feel like they'll never end

accompanied by wide brimmed hats, sunglasses and smiles wide enough

to swallow all of the lonely, empty nights that ever were

you make me feel like my blood is light and my bones are crafted from stardust

that the sky was never the limit because we're all walking galaxies

and we never needed to go to sleep to dream

because we were limitless all along

every time we meet,

my heart stutters and reminds me

that this is the way you make me feel

infinite, infinite, infinite.