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Well, I've been describing it as a deconstructionist's surf ode to summer and I think that's as apt a description as there can be for the song. I've been living in exile in the Armpitofnowhere, IL 62894 for a few years now and the cold is really starting to get to me. I hate it here. The production on this one has been intentionally left a little rough. I wanted it to have a "live-in-the-studio" feel and I think more or less it has that.

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Hey Summer, long time no see.
Winter's been trying to kick the windows in
and Spring only brought more rain than flowers.
Hey Summer, where you been?

Hey Summer, you beautiful stranger.
Call those bikinis out from under the rocks
and tell all the girls that the surf has come back to La Jolla.
Hey Summer, key the locks.

We're sick of these cold Winter skies, all purple and stainless.
We're smoking way too much, we're pasty but painless.
And maybe we're asking too much but you know we're shamelessly waiting.

Hey Summer, long time no see.
We're reading the palms as they sway on the palisade
and felling quite crushed by the weight of this Winter patina.
Hey Summer, we're counting days.
Hey Summer, we're counting days.
Hey Summer, we're counting days.

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from Billy's Ego Presents: Songs About Stationwagons, released August 25, 2005
Words and music: Carlton J. Madden

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