Black Dog String Quartet - Summer Song

Do you believe that summer is a mystery?
It's a time outside of time, a secret bird so swiftly by
And would you agree that we are also a mystery?
Just as fleeting and divine, like sparks that left the fire for the sky

I filled my heart with the best things of summer
With sunshine and with wild flowers, but I could not keep them close to me
Oh Summer, oh Summer! How I clung to your sweetness!
You were a thousand golden roses! I couldn't bear to watch you fade

With the sunset behind me, heartache chased me across the mountains
pushed me deep into the wilderness, to be empty and alone for a time
Oh I raised my fists and I cursed the sunshine
I didn't care to live or die. I think I almost lost my mind

My tired feet led me to the heart of the summer
To look August in the eye and ask her why she had forsaken me
And August stood waiting with her crown wove of hazel
She called me gently by my name but I could not raise my face to her

And she said: Hold me but not too fast
Because the sunshine, the breeze, this grass
And you and I
We too shall pass
She said: Hold me but not too fast
Because the sunshine, the breeze, this grass
And you and I
We too shall pass
She said: Hold me but not too fast
Because the sunshine, the breeze, this grass
And you and I
We too shall pass
She said: Hold me but not too fast
Because the sunshine, the breeze, this grass
And you and I
We too shall pass
She said: Hold me but not too fast
Because the sunshine, the breeze, this grass
And you and I
We too shall pass
She said: Hold me but not too fast
Because the sunshine, the breeze, this grass
And you and I
We too shall pass
She said: Hold me but not too fast
Because the sunshine, the breeze, this grass
And you and I
We too shall pass

Though I have touched the heart of of the mystery
I couldn't hold it in my hand. I could not carry it away
But for now I am fine and at peace with the sunshine
I wish that summer would just stay a while
Not forever, but just a little while

Written by:
John Kastelic

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