Indian Summer

Album: Free (2009)
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  • Summer is lost now
    The frost is closing in
    To the cold gospel dollar
    The poor man walks in sin
    I can't get no entrance
    The doors all in rows
    I pray into the distance
    Let me outta these heavy clothes

    I beg
    Indian summer I need some return
    So hard to get warm now
    And so easy to get burned
    Down on the pavement the laws are learned
    It's so hard to get warm where
    It's so easy to get burned

    When a sister called up
    And said that love had broken down
    I said there too much ice around here
    To find no solid ground
    Well I just squeezed a season
    From this paper bag
    I pray to the burning tires
    Wrap my feet in rags

    Begging
    Indian summer I need some return
    It's so hard to get warm now
    And so easy to get burned
    Down on the pavement the laws are learned
    It's so hard to get warm where
    It's so easy to get burned

    Now the sky is empty
    The street is sweating tears
    Communion at the station
    For a million grinding gears
    Well I'm riding out this century
    The harvest engines sing
    From the church of mercenaries
    To a naked virgin spring

    I'm singing
    Indian summer I need some return
    It's so hard to get warm now
    And so easy to get burned
    Down on the pavement the laws are learned
    It's so hard to get warm where
    It's so easy to get burned

    Hard to get warm where
    It's so easy to get burned Writer/s: CHRIS WHITLEY
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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