Green to Gold (Live)

So, summer's on the outs

So get up, swim around the house

Crickets clicking down the block

We are on an early morning walk

No one's up and no cars on the street

Hiding from an unrelenting heat

Sun is climbing out from underneath

Lighting up and roasting tired leaves

Green to gold, going green to gold

Green to gold, going green to gold

A breeze blew in and autumn came to town

Branches bare, the leaves rest on the ground

All that summer worked to bud and bloom

Only to be swept up by a broom

An uninvited frost formed over night

By early afternoon, we're losing light

Now they're saying two, three feet of snow

The reading dips to ten degrees below

Morning's bright, the ancient ice withdraws

I take one step and the ground begins to thaw

Tiny grasses spring up 'round my shoe

Eager bits of green start peeking through

Seedlings turn to chutes and shoot up high

Thunderclouds hold hostage summer sky

Concrete's hot with fire it can't contain

We sit in front of fans and wait for rain

And just like that, summer's on the outs

So get up, swim around the house

Crickets clicking down the block

While we are on an early morning walk, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Green to gold, going green to gold

Green to gold, going green to gold

Green to gold, going green to gold

Green to gold, going green to gold

Green to gold, going green to gold

Green to gold, going green to gold

Green to gold, going green to gold

Green to gold, going green to gold