Dar Williams End Of The Summer Lyrics

End Of The Summer Lyrics




The summer ends and we wonder where we are 
And there you go, my
friends, with your boxes in your car 
And you both look so young 
And
last night was hard, you said 
You packed up every room 
And then you
cried and went to bed 
But today you closed the door and said 
"We
have to get a move on. 
It's just that time of year when we push ourselves
ahead, 
We push ourselves ahead." 

And it was cloudy in the
morning 
And it rained as you drove away 
And the same things looked
different 
It's the end of the summer 
It's the end of the summer,

When you move to another place 

And I feel like the neighbor's girl
who will never be the same 
She walked alone all spring, 
She had a
boyfriend when the summer came 
And he gave her flowers in a lightning storm

They disappeared at night in green fields of silver corn 
And sometime in
July she just forgot that he was leaving 
So when the fields were dying, she
held on to his sleeves 
She held on to his sleeves 

And she doesn't
want to let go 
'Cause she won't know what she's up against 
The
classrooms and the smart girls 
It's the end of the summer 
It's the end
of the summer 
When you hang your flowers up to dry 

And I had a
dream it blows the autumn through my head 
It felt like the first day of
school 
But I was going to the moon instead 
And I walked down the hall

With the notebooks they got for me 
My dad led me through the house

My mom drank instant coffee 
And I knew that I would crash 
But I
didn't want to tell them 
There are just some moments when your family makes
sense 
They just make sense 

So I raised up my arms and my mother put
the sweater on 
We walked out on the dark and frozen grass 
The end of
the summer 
It's the end of the summer 
When you send your children to
the moon 

The summer ends and we wonder who we are 
And there you go,
my friends, with your boxes in your car 
And today I passed the high school,
the river, the maple tree 
I passed the farms that made it 
Through the
last days of the century 
And I knew that I was going to learn again

Again, in this less hazy light 
I saw the fields beyond the fields

The fields beyond the fields 

And the colors are much brighter now

It's like they really want to tell the truth 
We give our testimony to
the end of the summer 
It's the end of the summer, 
You can spin the
light to gold.