[Verse 1] We counted it in evenings not in weeks and not in days thirty-one of them, and warm and not one of them wasted [Pre-Chorus] And nobody promised more and nobody asked for more [Chorus] All that the summer owes the summer has already paid all that the summer owes it put into our hands all that the summer owes [Verse 2] The fruit came early and came hard and the well held out till August and the two of us did nothing much for thirty-one good evenings [Pre-Chorus] And nobody promised more and nobody asked for more [Chorus] All that the summer owes the summer has already paid all that the summer owes it put into our hands all that the summer owes [Bridge] Winter is not a betrayal winter is the other half and I would take the whole of it to have had the thirty-one
