Summer Skin

Album: Plans (2005)
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  • Squeaky swings and tall grass
    The longest shadows ever cast
    The waters warm and children swim
    We frolicked about in our summer skin

    I don't recall a single care
    Just greenery and humid air
    Then Labor Day came and went
    And we shed what was left of our summer skin

    On the night you left I came over
    And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders
    Our brand new coats so flushed and pink
    And I knew your heart I couldn't win
    Cause the seasons change was a conduit
    And we'd left our love in our summer skin Writer/s: Benjamin D. Gibbard, Christopher Ryan Walla, Jason Patrick McGerr, Nicholas Scott Harmer
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Dale from Cambridge, United KingdomI have been in this exact same position. Last summer I shared with an amazing girl who was at University. With the knowing that she would be going back and living a seperate life to mine, we agreed to stop seeing eachother. This always reminds me of her, and one of the best summers of my life.
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