Summer

ALL MY SUMMERS

VERSE 1

Everything felt warmer when I was young

Sunshine seemed to stay all day

Nobody was rushing anywhere

And I never wished the time away

Except I couldn’t wait to get older

Couldn’t wait to see who I would be

Funny how forever feels so certain

When you’ve barely begun to dream

VERSE 2

That dock sat way out in the middle

Where all the teenagers would lay

And every time I looked across that water

I’d wonder if today would be the day

Could I swim that far?

Could I make it on my own?

Ten years old, I finally decided

There was only one way to know

Skinny little thing with long blonde hair

Green eyes, golden from the sun

I pulled myself up beside them

So damn proud of what I’d done

They smiled and laughed and made room for me

I stayed just long enough to grin

Then bomb-dived right beside them

And soaked every one of them

Came up laughing in the water

And swam away like hell

I wanted so badly to be older

But I liked being me as well

CHORUS

Those were my summers

Sun on my shoulders, water on my skin

Never knowing where the years were going

Never asking where they’d been

I wasn’t chasing money

Wasn’t trying to become someone

I just lived wherever life was happening

And always followed the sun

VERSE 3

Then came boys and first kisses

And love found me along the way

I never had some grand design

For how my life should look someday

I never dreamed about being a mother

Never planned it all ahead

Life just opened another door

And I walked through it instead

Then there were babies in my arms

And somehow years inside those eyes

One day you’re holding their little hands

Then they’re standing by your side

CHORUS

Those were my summers

Some were easy, some were wild

Some disappeared before I knew

I’d been living them awhile

I’ve never cared much about riches

Give me something real instead

People I love, something to write

And sunshine overhead

BRIDGE

I’ve always had that feeling

That quiet knowing deep inside

I can’t tell you where it comes from

I just know when something’s right

I’ve watched my seasons come and go

Never tried to make them stay

Maybe that’s the thing about living—

You have to let life change

And the world feels different now

Sometimes I hate the things I see

Everybody running somewhere

Forgetting just to be

FINAL CHORUS

But I’m still a summer girl

Put me anywhere near the blue

Give me sunshine on the water

And I’ve got nothing left to prove

I’ve been a daughter, lover, mother

I’ve been a thousand things by now

But somewhere underneath them all

I’m still the same somehow

I still laugh a little too loud

Still trust that feeling deep inside

Still want to see somebody happy

Still want to write what’s on my mind

Let everybody else keep running

I’ve never needed to live that way

I’ve had a life made out of seasons

And I’m still

living mine

today.