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The Summer People

from When My Baby Comes Around by Rod Johnson

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lyrics

They’re on the roads, in their SUVs
Like an army on the roll
We’re on the sidewalks, eager to please
The tourist town patrol
With streets and stores sparkling in the sun
Open for another year
Of welcoming them all, and selling them the things
To remind them they were here

[chorus]
The summer people are like a bad boyfriend
They don’t need you but they don’t go away
The summer people think they own this town
And like it or not, they just may
We sell/give them things that we can never own
And when winter comes we face it all alone

He’s still back home, he’s got work to do
She’s at the summer place
These August days seem to last so long
The only sound is the surging of the waves
After a while she needs something to do
So she dresses and goes downtown
She doesn’t know we see the way she treats this place
Like it’s her own lost and found

[chorus]

The kids at night, in their pickup trucks
Roll up and down the shore
They can only go so far before the road runs out
What are they searching for?
Off in the dunes you can see a few
Gathered around a fire
The way they gaze across the firelight
Entangled in desire

Autumn’s like a dream, winter’s long and leaves you numb
Spring is sweet and fleeting and then the summer people come

It doesn’t last forever, though it seems like that sometimes
Eventually it all comes to an end
And we close up shop, and pack the toys away
All this time to spend
If our luck’s been good, maybe we’ve taken in
Enough to get us through
Now it all slows down, time to settle in
To another year of making do

[chorus]

The summer people, the summer people
The summer people come and go
The summer people, the summer people
The summer people come and go

credits

from When My Baby Comes Around, released June 25, 2019
Rod Johnson: acoustic and electric guitar, vocals
David Roof: bass, percussion
Donn Deniston: drums

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Rod Johnson Ann Arbor, Michigan

Singer, songwriter, not really a singer-songwriter though. Just trying to make something good.

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