SUMMER NEVER CAME BACK

The shops were closing one by one And the sky burned orange over town Somebody played a Lennon song From an open second-floor window Your cigarettes still filled my coat With that strange perfume of July And every golden evening now Feels like waiting for a ghost Summer never came back… But the streets still glow for you… And all the kids still dance outside Like we’re seventeen and endless… OHHHH… The sunset swallowed everything… OHHHH… Except the thought of you… I saw your face in passing cars In supermarket parking lots In every girl with tired eyes And flowers in her tangled hair Summer never came back… But I still wait sometimes… The sky turned deep electric blue And somewhere people still fell in love… But summer never came back…