Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset

Luke Bryan

Your daddy had a lake house

He had me paint it that summer sophomore year

Said I could stay for free

A couple buddies, a couple weeks

You rode in in a little red Honda

And headed straight for the pier

Tank top and cut-off jeans

A little PacSun underneath

Who knew it was ‘bout to be

Sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat

Moonlight, all night, crashing into me

Nothing will ever be easy as you and me

Tangled up and nowhere to be

Just sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat

Sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat, ayy

I turned those shutters the color of your eyes

‘Til the day turned into night

And took turns with a jar

Turn that boat dock into a bar

And then we passed the guitar around the fire to each other

And watched all of our friends pair off with one another

But we felt like the stars we were under

And everybody knew that that was our summer

Sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat

Moonlight, all night, crashing into me

Nothing will ever be easy as you and me

Tangled up and nowhere to be

Just sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat

Yeah

Whoa

We set July on fire

Whoa

Yeah, girl, you and I were

Sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat

Sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat

Moonlight, all night, crashing into me

Nothing will ever be easy as you and me

Tangled up and nowhere to be

Just sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat

Sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat

Yeah

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Background

The nostalgic track featured on his “What Makes You Country” album has Luke Bryan looking back on a romance. Written by Zach Crowell, Ryan Hurd and Chase McGill, “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” is the perfect summer anthem. The song recalls a summertime romance between two teenaged protagonists. The narrator falls in love with a girl after being hired to paint the girl’s father’s lake house. Bryan debuted the song on the May 2018 finale of “American Idol,” on which he serves as a judge.