Released on Earth Day 2020, “Summer All Over” is a mercurial reflection on climate change.
The accompanying video features footage from the 1958 documentary The Living Stone, which depicts Baffin Island Inuit Indigenous peoples and their stone-carving art. Mills told Stereogum and JamBase that “the...
Look, it's not gonna rain again
Winter, winter is over
It's summer all over the world
June, the color burned away
And now the old gloom hardly knows her
It's summer all over the world
No movement
No future
No past
How long do you think it'll last?
Looking for water
Looking for shade
And there's only sunblock and beers
Surf is up
And the fish are flopping
And everyone will soon be here
Looking for laughter
Looking for kindness
Looking for goodness
For goodness
For goodness sakes
To suffer the fools we make
Look again
‘Tis the season
The people on the street
Couldn't be colder
It's summer
All over
Summer all over the world
Summer all over the world
Summer all over the world
But baby don't cry
Baby don't cry
Summer All Over was written by Cass McCombs & Blake Mills.
Summer All Over was produced by Blake Mills.
Blake Mills released Summer All Over on Wed Apr 22 2020.