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I tried to make a happy summer song and this is what happened.

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it’s the season of
blacktops not blackboards
of high tops and bike rides
of ice pops and low tides
it’s the season of
nights spent on rooftops
cold beer and flip flops
birdsong and hopscotch

and july marches in on the heels of three score elephants with skeleton keys and diamond rings, the lips of god and wild things

and july marches in on the heels of three score elephants all clad in white with shining wings the lips of man split wide to sing:

songs about himself
songs about himself

all the names of the ones he knows
well they melted: sugar in the sea
and when the eye of the lord is past
well the world will just be that much more sweet

eyes are the windows to the soul (we know, we know, we’ve all been told)
existence is proved by thought alone (we know we know, but still we will not go into the dark)
there’s naught to fear in the unknown (oh no, oh no, we will not go into the dark!)

all the names of the ones you know
they will melt just like sugar in the sea
and when your days on the earth are grass
well the soil will just be that much more sweet
I’m afraid of the sound of rain
I’m afraid of the way you say my name
and everything else that has an end

why don’t I feel what I oughta feel, we are unknowable
far as stars from the arms of those who hold us close
and all the nights we didn’t light with a love that was not love at all

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from One Day The Distance Between Myself And God Will Disappear, released January 1, 2008

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