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lyrics

Summertime
'87 I
stayed inside.
We knew a kid
they took off with-
and he was never seen again.

Summertime
'87 I
was terrified.
I recall
hours spent
at the child psychologist.

The buzzing in the air sounds like
the soundtrack playing half my life-
the sound of someone tuning in between
two stations on the dial.

To my surprise
'87 I
got out alive
and told myself
not to get
pinned down by those things again.

Summertime
'87 I
woke up to find
I’d metamorphasized into
the very thing I was afraid of…

Chorus

We just got our wings
and we don’t know how to use them.
Shed our skin and crawl out
to one another.
A giant love song
is broadcast and then gone.
Our giant love song-
sing along.
(The chorus of the voices in my head…)

Summertime
I've come back home
fully grown
and quite content
to make my love,
and then just disappear again.

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from I Never Got That Close, released January 11, 2013
Written & arranged by Neil Norman & Old Man

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