Last Day Of Summer

[Kahn]

Last day of summer

End of the fun

Last day of summer

Done for everyone.

One more day

Then I’ll drift away…

Get up before nine

Though I went to bed at four

Not up five minutes

Till they’re knocking at the door.

It’s the calvary, the same old gang

Familiar faces

Everyone of them disgraces

One last day, on this last year.

Tomorrow I’m leaving

Everything I know.

As the air grows cooler

So my heart does too

As I grow older

And farther too

My friends and family

One last day, then I’ll drift away,

Go to the field, so we can play

Soccer for the millionth time.

Not as fun, as it once was.

When flowers budded in May

The days were shorter, but better somehow

Still I can’t let go.

I partied last night, but not today.

Today is simple, just float away,

Thirteen times, summer’s been finished,

But I’m not going back to those halls.

Or hang with my old friends in the mall.

I’m gonna disappear into the air.

I see a nice girl down the street.

Charms me with her hocus-pocus

Low-cut skirt and open blouse

Climbs into a car with some guy,

While my friends are gone

Trying to bum cigarettes off strangers.

Not much longer till summer’s over.

Hear it is then, at the finish line

I long for both worlds, I long to freeze time.

Want it all done with, want to start again.

As the sun now sets never to rise.

I struggle just to close my eyes

My mind full of fear for all these years.

Those that have passed, and those to come.

It’s all the same, it’s all one.

Drift away from reality

Into fantasy

Summer’s done.