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Summer Passing

from Monks Aflame by Old Joy

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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.

(BR) 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.

credits

from Monks Aflame, released December 16, 2020
James Reindl - Lead Vocals
Alex Reindl - Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Bass, Piano, Harmony vocals
Max Petot - Drums

Written by James Reindl
Engineered and Mixed by Doug Malone, JAMDEK Studio, Chicago IL 2020
Mastered by Carl Saff, Saff Mastering, 2020

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Now located in Austin TX
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