Summers Nearly Over

"Summer's nearly over"

by the CATCHERS

 

Sing a song of wisdom

for a summer's children

And her body's broken

and her hands clutch at stars

Cradle summer's falling

in the arms that you once bore them

And the second's crawling

to the lake their wounds

Chorus 1:

And summer's nearly over

We are not yet safe

(2 times)

We could hide away

find peace in some shaded place

Because the sun seems too strong

and the rain, of course

She washes everything away

into the sea, into its belly

where summer's children play

Chorus 1

Chorus 2:

 

Come down with me now

To where the summer (misten?) its rage

Come down I want you

To (tether?) the deeper me

As the songs of summer

Went down in numbers

And the moments lost their speed

I have felt a shiver

I heard a golden whisper

That seem to call after me

Chorus 2

 

Follow me down, Follow me down

Follow me down to summer's (graze?)

Come down with me now

I will show you tragic things.

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Franck Zeisel (Toulouse, France)

bretzel@exupery.ensica.fr

Fr