The second song inspired and written for the upcoming debut novel, “Roses Grow in June”  by Azalea Guan. 

The tale of romance set in the 2000s, Roseanne crosses paths with June, a vibrant love unraveling with themes of first love and loss of innocence. 

From playful gestures and exchanging each other’s very firsts, yet every love story comes to an end — here is the beginning of something new. In a small town, by the river dock…

INTRO ♫

I just want to say

Would you ever want to take this downtown?

We could maybe – maybe stay past midnight? 

And pace around the streets on fifteen

You really know how to make something out nothing

And there’s a glimmer of hope, a glimmer of me – in your eyes

♫

Did you know, I sold my life away 

Not really sure how it all happened, I wasn’t really quite like you

I wouldn’t love me either – I’m not really sure how it all happens. 

So would you ever want to take this downtown?

♫

FIRST VERSE ♫

I’d love to watch the sun swallow you whole

And maybe we could drive past that bench – the one you held me on the tenth – on fifteen 

Put your phone on silent

Let’s go drinking, your face lit up, you all over me

I want you all over me, I used to hear sirens in my sleep 

I didn’t realize, I didn’t know

♫

CHORUS ♫

Watch the clock turn seventeen

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I wish we had more time

I wish the world stopped raining, one second

And the third… So would you ever wanna take this downtown? Drive past fifteen

Look up, pause and say what I say 

Do it anyway, look past anyway

SECOND VERSE ♫

Just as long as it’s half past midnight, some people live forever without ever living for a second

Close your eyes, let’s drive past fifteen

BRIDGE ♫

I just gotta say

‘You don’t have to pretend’

‘I hid away my secret, just so we could be”

‘So we could take this downtown, past midnight.’

♫

I just gotta say

‘You don’t have to pretend’

‘I hid away my secret, just so we could be”

‘So we could take this downtown, past…’

♫