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