Real Summer

I loll on the porch swing
Tall mint julep in hand
Listening to the Beach Boys
Why don't they understand?

This is not what I call summer
Summer it's infinitely less than

We get one real summer
Only one in our time
Full of wine and wonder
You were mine

We get one real summer
Ridiculous and sublime
Before we go under
You were mine

I may drive my woody
Down to Sandcastle Beach
With my brave new boyfriend
But love is out of reach

Who lives in these crumbling castles?
Summer's promise honored in the breach

We get one real summer
Only one in our time
Full of wine and wonder
You were mine

We get one real summer
Ridiculous and sublime
Before we go under
You were mine

So lost without you
Haven't a clue what to do, what to do

Octagons fall from the sun
As we run through the grass
Let weathermen blether
This forecast is o'ercast

And the Beach Boys? Hell
They might as well play "Winter Wonderland"
Summer, my ass

We get one real summer
Only one in our time
Full of wine and wonder
You were mine

We get one real summer
Ridiculous and sublime
Before we go under
You were mine
You were mine