Summer Song Lyrics

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