[Verse 1]
There’s a red front porch and a screen door slam,
Ice on the glass in my small-town hands,
Mama on the stove with the radio low,
And the world felt big from a linoleum floor.

[Pre-Chorus]
I can still hear the creek by the gravel road,
Bare feet racing where the wildflowers grow,
We didn’t know how fast the years would go,
But I hold that light where I go.

[Chorus]
It’s a childhood memory, soft and bright,
Like a porch light glowing in the backseat night,
A little lost time, but it still knows me,
In my heart, it lives on free.
Every scar, every mile, every face I see,
Still leads me back to that childhood memory.

[Verse 2]
Dad in the yard with a rusted-out swing,
Laughing so loud it could wake anything,
Summer on my tongue like a cherry-freeze,
And the whole wide world fit in the shade of the trees.

[Bridge]
Now I’m grown, but when the rain comes down,
I’m that kid again on the edge of town,
Chasing fireflies through the midnight air,
Feeling safe because they were there.

[Chorus]
It’s a childhood memory, soft and bright,
Like a porch light glowing in the backseat night,
A little lost time, but it still knows me,
In my heart, it lives on free.
Every scar, every mile, every face I see,
Still leads me back to that childhood memory.

[Outro]
And if I close my eyes, I can almost be
The one I was in that childhood memory.