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 I Don't Believe in Summer Copyright 2005 by Adam Selzer. All rights reserved, ASCAP
I wish that the sun would go behind the Hancock building And cast a shadow over me and cover me this morning Like the covers that you stole last night But all I see is this blinding light That I will not let play tricks on my eye Yesterday was one degree From the hottest day in local history And they had me working on the patio All day long while the radio played the same five summer staples Over and over Chorus: I don't believe in summer anymore I don't believe in sunlight shining through the window to the kitchen floor I don't believe in much the way that I believed before I don't believe in summer anymore I'm bitter about every hour that I've spent all these years Working nametag jobs in strip mall towns and tourist traps out on the pier Remember that summer in Cornersville Trace When you were working at the discount place And sometimes when the restaurant let me out in time I'd drive over to talk to you On the pretense of buying a tape or two And behind the counter in garden supplies We'd eat from a bag of stolen fries If I'd kept all of my nametags I could cover a goddamn wall by now chorus Then there was that summer when I was home from school And clerking afternoons at the video store while you watched kids at the city pool And since they'd given you the master key You'd sneak in after hours with me Rest our feet in the shallow end and stare up at the sky You'd say "are you sleeping? Are you close? Are you dreaming? Just almost?" And I'd see you looking down at me As though you were in love with me But it was just a trick of the summer weather, I'm old enough to know that now chorus Notable links: The Hancock Building Cornersville Trace August 2005
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