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Well we were just kids in the summer of our lives
All of the fun we had helped us to survive
I can still feel the sun on the back of my neck
And I’ll tell you what I miss if you gimme just one sec

There was this girl I knew from those summer days of old
She wasn’t Juliet, she wasn’t Helen, nothing like those stories told
She was tall and she was tough and she always seemed to have enough
She was my friend who cared enough to fight
Who stayed out late to talk all hours of the night
We never kissed we never danced but still I miss the unspoken romance
Well she made me fell at home even if I was away
She’d read my mind, always knew what I would say

I’d give it all for one more day out on the beach
Cheese fries in hand our favorite band on the radio within reach
There were some tears and lots of cheers as a kid in the summertime
We had no fears just tons of beers surrounded by those friends of mine
But how my heart aches so, why did she go? It tears at me inside
We never did show, though, we always did know we’d come and go just like the tide

So life went on and all us beach bums parted ways
Maybe its me but I’ve never seen much better days
But every year when it gets warm I start to feel the quiet storm
It starts inside, in rolls the tide that makes me feel o, so forlorn
I think of times out on the porch passing hours with conversation
Those memories are like a torch with a bittersweet burning sensation

It’s like looking at a past life self, all the thoughts up on the shelf
Was that really me? Was it really you? Was there anything we could do?
Do you believe in second chances? Second glances and second rate romances?
Or is it best to soldier on, to be just words in some awkward song
Just a thought that creeps in late at night that brings old faces back in the light
Is it best to just let in die? To let it go and let it fly
Is it so wrong to fight for the only thing that ever felt right?
All I do comes with some thought of you and how I wish you were still here
Even though the skies are blue in the summer they will never again be so clear