Lyrics
[verse]
Seventeen summers on my grandad's land
Learned to love with a boy and an open hand
Porch light glowing while the crickets sang
Days moved slow, the whole world rang
He had eyes like the fields at dusk
Nothing then could shake our trust
[chorus]
Sweet like the berries growing in the sun
That was the summer we thought we'd never done
Nights so soft and skies so clear
Wish I could bottle up that year
Sweet like the berries, warm like July
First taste of love before the goodbye
[verse]
He left for college, I stayed behind
Wrote him letters, tried not to mind
The seasons changed and so did we
But some part of him still lives in me
I drive past that field every now and then
And taste that summer all over again
[chorus]
Sweet like the berries growing in the sun
That was the summer we thought we'd never done
Nights so soft and skies so clear
Wish I could bottle up that year
Sweet like the berries, warm like July
First taste of love before the goodbye
[bridge]
Grown now, older, wiser too
Still I remember the sky so blue
Some things you never quite outgrow
The first love always keeps its glow
[chorus]
Sweet like the berries growing in the sun
That was the summer we thought we'd never done
Nights so soft and skies so clear
Wish I could bottle up that year
Sweet like the berries, warm like July
First taste of love before the goodbye
