Cicada Summer Lyrics

I've had this feeling sometimes

When things get such a mess

Like I wish the hero of the story

Wouldn't go into the cave or the evil lair

Just turn away from the forbidden forest

"Just go home," I'd say, "Visit your family

Run from all the blood and loss and danger

Just for a little while, can't we rest?"

Let's breathe in the fresh air

And smell the flowers

Because the deeper you go

And the older you get

The more you reminisce about the days of old

Living wild with childish abandon

You think about how it'd be so nice

To be a kid again

To run through the woods

And swing on the swing sets

Carve your initials in trees

Bask in the warm summer breeze

Crane your neck back to soak

In the fireworks on the Fourth of July

And it's alright to leave the light on at night

To scare the monsters and all the bad dreams away

But time, it seems, catches up with us