Old Summer Reckoning

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