Summers Passing

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Old Joy is a 2006 American road movie written and directed by Kelly Reichardt and based on a short story by Jonathan Raymond. The original soundtrack for the film is by Yo La Tengo and included on the compilation soundtrack album They Shoot, We Score. more »

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On a warm summer night in '76, sweetened by country air
We sat on the porch 3 a.m. our senses dulled from drinking beer
The conversation hit a lag and we heard a distant siren wail
That lonesome sound when you surely know
Somebody's soul has just set sail

We drank a toast to their memory
Though we didn't know who it was
In those immortal years you just can't think
That time will turn you into dust
The next day we learned that a friend had turned the keys in on his life
And so it goes, those moments flow
Until your time is right

I'm sitting here in my grey hair
And I hear that siren cry
I know that all those great years
Are time that's gone by
I don't worry about the past
The future's too short to cry
If I can hold this moment 'till the next one
I'll be doing fine

I can see that porch but not the faces there
The memory of that simple night
Is like a lost breath of sweet and country air
Or a kiss from an old lover in the moonlight
All that's gone between then and now
A life that's fading with the evening glow
Still through it all I hear that siren call
As the summer passes into fall

Every day I know a secret
And that is that I know nothing at all
Memories come and memories go
Drifting like ghosts they come to call
They don't mean that much and don't last too long
They're just like this song
But I know them like I knew those friends
Younger then, wiser now and all of us moved on

When that siren finally plays for me
I wonder who will hear
Maybe Some drunk kids on a summer porch just sitting drinking beer
Wonder if they'll say poor soul just left today
Or if they'll even know at all
That country air so sweet and fair
Means summer's passing into fall

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