Indian Summer

Album: #1s… and Then Some (2009)
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  • The tall weeds lay flat down
    On the hard flat Kansas ground.
    And a sad song in her head,
    Kept blowin' round.

    She barely even knew his name,
    But she liked the way he played the game.
    Everybody cheered,
    When he scored that last touchdown

    Indian Summer,
    The wonder,
    The hunger,
    And the sound of distant thunder.
    Indian Summer.

    Tangled in a moment of truth.
    Bottle of wine in a motel room.
    Blue haze circled 'round
    The cold gray moon.

    While the wind chased the leaves outside.
    Passion found a place to hide.
    Late September heat,
    Couldn't be denied.

    Oh Indian Summer,
    The wonder,
    The hunger,
    And the sound of distant thunder.
    Indian Summer.

    She never even finished school.
    People like to talk, they can be so cruel.
    Heard California was a place,
    To start brand new.

    So she left that dust bowl town.
    Sometimes when the lone wind howls,
    I wonder where we'd be,
    If I never scored that last
    Touchdown.

    Summer.
    The wonder,
    The hunger,
    And the sound of distant thunder.
    Indian Summer.

    Oh, whoa! Writer/s: BOB DIPIERO, KIX BROOKS, RONNIE DUNN
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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