It's a tractor firing up Kids playing in a field Four wheels getting stuck A line singing out a fishing reel It's a cooler sliding in the bed of a truck A tin roof dripping rain Your baby saying, come pick me up Take me down to the riverbank These are sounds going down in a nowhere town Underneath the wide open sky It's the dust in the air and the freedom everywhere Can't you hear it coming alive? Makes you wanna drop it down a gear And kill a couple of beers Been waiting all year, now it's finally here Back around, these are the sounds of summer It's the flick of a lighter lighting up a little smoke Boots climbing barbwire, a little spot nobody goes Lawn chairs breaking out in the yard to the firework boom Hearing a heart beating in the dark, saying that she wants to These are sounds going down in a nowhere town Underneath the wide open sky It's the dust in the air and the freedom everywhere Can't you hear it coming alive? Makes you wanna drop it down a gear And kill a couple of beers Been waiting all year, now it's finally here Back around, these are the sounds of summer Yeah, the sounds of summer 'Round here that's what it's all about So listen up and look around It's who we are, it's what we love So tonight let's crank 'em up These sounds going down in a nowhere town Underneath the wide open sky It's the dust in the air and the freedom everywhere Can't you hear it coming alive? It goes way too fast, it all disappears And when it's gone, we'll still be here Hanging 'round, missing the sounds of summer Missing the sounds of summer The sounds of summer Yeah, the sounds of summer