[Verse 1]
Found your note inside my coat
Tiny bottle in the lining
Summer folded in the wool
Like a secret I was hiding
Smelled the ocean in the fabric
Salt and sunlight in the thread
Funny how a drop of August
Wakes the ghosts I thought were dead

[Pre-Chorus]
I tried to pack the past away
When all the leaves turned gold
But memories don’t fade that fast
When they’re stitched into your soul

[Chorus]
Leftover sunscreen in December
Warm on frozen skin
Thought I left you in September
But you’re drifting back again
Every corner of this quiet
Still remembers where you’ve been
Leftover sunscreen in December
Summer living in my skin

[Verse 2]
Scrolling through forgotten pictures
Your laugh just out of sight
Only half of us together
Under neon August light
My window breathes the winter
So I draw a crooked sun
Watching golden drops of water
Like the days we came undone

[Pre-Chorus]
I tried to wash the colors out
When autumn turned to gray
But sunlight leaves a trace behind
No winter wipes away

[Chorus]
Leftover sunscreen in December
Warm on frozen skin
Thought I closed the door forever
But you wander back again
Every corner of this quiet
Still remembers where you’ve been
Leftover sunscreen in December
Summer living in my skin

[Bridge]
Maybe I won’t fight it now
Maybe I’ll just let it stay
A little light from yesterday
Guiding me through colder days
Some loves fade like evening skies
Some just softly bend
Turning every frozen moment
Warm again

[Final Chorus]
Leftover sunscreen in December
Soft against the cold
Every trace of you’s a shimmer
In the stories that I hold
If a little bit of summer
Helps a lonely heart begin
Then leftover sunscreen in December
Is where healing starts again