[ Featuring Van Dyke Parks ]
Old summer reckoning
The long gray shadows bring you home again
I keep you in mind
I keep you in mind
Every year around this time
Tired heat hanging on worn out leaves
The still air bending down over me
It weighs on the trees
Who buckle and creak
The hours moving thick as thieves
Old summer reckoning
Long gray shadows bring you home again
I keep you in mind
I keep you in mind
Every year around this time
Tired eyes sleeping on a windswept page
Dreaming as the story tries to fly away
I lost too much time
I'm lost all the time
Re-reading the last
Re-reading the past
Re-reading the last few lines
I left you as the summer bore down that day
Baffled in the sun you turned hard as clay
Day after day
Come wind and come rain
I pray that you are swept away
