Songfacts®:

• Written and performed by Lizzy McAlpine, "Spring Into Summer" appears on the deluxe edition of her heartbreak-haunted album Older, titled Older (and Wiser). Like much of McAlpine's work, this song explores the struggles of loving someone the way they need to be loved when you are, for reasons both emotional and existential, fundamentally unequipped.
• The "Spring Into Summer" title reflects the song's central metaphor of emotional and personal transition.
  
  Spring into summer, and the winter's gone
  I try to hold on to it, but the current's too strong
  Somebody finds me in the state I am
  Love you like I mean it when I know I can't
  
  McAlpine uses the changing of seasons as a symbol for moving forward after a difficult period. This transition represents leaving behind the coldness or stagnation of "winter" and embracing the hope, warmth, and renewal that comes with "summer."
• Lizzy McAlpine wrote the song during her The Older Tour. The initial spark came from a snippet she found in her voice memos with the line "gone, I hold it, the river is too strong," which she decided to develop further. While backstage, she began playing around with the idea on guitar but wasn't sure how to continue. She then brought the idea to her band members Mason Stoops, Michael Libramento, Ryan Richter and Taylor Mackall and cobbled the song together somewhere between train rides and soundchecks. They finished it just an hour before their Boston gig and decided to play it in place of another unreleased song on the setlist: "Force of Nature."
• Though McAlpine has kept the specifics of the relationship that inspired the track private, the emotions feel uncomfortably universal. "Spring Into Summer" is about longing, misalignment, and the strange loyalty we show to our own sadness. It is a song for anyone who has ever stayed too long, left too late, or loved too much - and came out the other side a little wiser, or at least a little more poetic about it.