Doug Davis - Summer of Love

from Round 7, Week 3 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Bit of a 60's-inflected, wistful, sophisticated pop tune, written almost entirely at - what else? - a Chris Stamey sound check. I hear a little bit of Johnny Marr in there, too.

Lyrically, it could use a few more passes, but I like the idea of aging being akin to a song that grows in resonance with repeated choruses and listens. I was, by the way born in the summer of love, so there.

lyrics

These cascading chords of years
Count the measures in my ears
The melodies begin to ring
On the repetitions' wings

You can hear it
If you listen soft and low
Disappearing
The composer's hand in flow

When i was young and fail of grace
All fortes, presto pace
I never thought the end would play
A ritard, a clip, a fade

But it's coming
As the bells through years have pealed
It's becoming
The richer tones concealed

In the summer of love
My song begins my heartbeat sends
The pilgrim sound
And in the autumn she grows
The shadows sown the halflight snows
The fade comes round
Enough beginnings, let the chorus return, let refrains roll round
Let the voices be heard
I will drown inside the sound
In the summer of love

And so we come the final shout
Second chorus, coda, out
I never knew we'd fall to sway
The deepest grooves old records play

But it's coming
As the bells through years have pealed
It's becoming
The richer tones concealed

In the summer of love
My song begins my heartbeat sends
The pilgrim sound
And in the autumn she grows
The shadows sown the halflight snows
The fade comes round
Enough beginnings, let the chorus return, let refrains roll round
Let the voices be heard
I will drown inside the sound
In the summer of love

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from Round 7, Week 3, released June 1, 2015

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