Summer Home

Intro I promised you I'm never giving up Never giving up, never giving up I won't give in But now that my body's giving up My legs are giving out my head is throwing up its hands, it's asking Can we wait for the summer again? Can we hold out for summer again? Can we ever be whole again? Bridge It's how we start over (starting over) It's how we start, it's how we start over It's how we start over (starting over) It's how we start, it's how we start over verse 1 My old house, my childhood's tomb It is a failing light, but it will come back soon A candle burns in your old room And before it goes out, I swear I will find you verse 2 My little sister I was two The year that you were born, and Ben came after you We all three shared gentle youth Our mother combed our hair, our father cleaned our wounds verse 3 Then a small thing happened or sunk its tooth And I was left behind, in different shapes you move In my peripheral sight I reach out for you But when I turn my head I'm in an empty room verse 4 A faceless clock, the hands unmoved But for a layer of dust, a cobweb or two In a broken mirror I see my broken truths Now when I comb my hair, I pull the gray ones loose Verse 5 My old house my childhood's tomb It is a failing light, but it will come back soon In the backyard, birds, a dogwood blooms I will come back home, I will wait for you Outro I will wait for the summer (wait for the summer) I will hold out for summer (hold out for summer) I will wait for the summer (wait for the summer) I will hold out for summer (hold out for summer) I will wait, there's a promised land In every man's heart, there is a summer