From the recording "Summers Like These" - Finalist in The International Acoustic Music Awards
As we long for the sweet days of summer in the throws of winter bitterness, the evanescent single, "Summers Like These", engages the senses with a warm, balmy summer scene filled with synonymous sounds and surrounding textures. It’s off the album “While I’m Here,” due out February 17, 2023.
The lyrics within “Summers Like These” convey the hazy feeling of being swept away in love and the new insights we get from new love and experiences at a young age or any age. There’s a sense of time passing, creeping - “time creeps, flowers weep” and gaining experience - “somehow older now, a whole lot wiser.”
Music and Lyrics by Tina Ross
Vocals and Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitars : Tina Ross
Fretless Bass, Electric Guitar : Mark Dann
Engineered, mixed and mastered : Mark Dann
Produced by Tina Ross and Mark Dann
Cover Design : Tilman Reitzle
Lyrics
Summers Like These
Summer opens your heart to me
July feels like a century
Heat bakes, love awakes
And I hold on to you.
Fireflies sail above the pond
Peepers sing as lights flash beyond
Life stirs, edges blur
I hold on to you, and you hold me.
And in the heat of this August night
Tempered by a breeze
Summer senses etch into my mind
So I’ll remember summers like these.
Somehow older now, a whole lot wiser
Suspended here as if time was a miser
Time creeps, flowers weep
Can’t I just stay here with you?
Labor Day brings with it an end
Sweet lessons stay, our love we will lend
Autumn won’t wait, our hearts break
I can’t hold on to you, I want to stay here with you.
And in the heat of this August night
Tempered by a breeze
Summer senses etch into my mind
So I’ll remember summers
When love was soft and new as it gets
The gentle clumsy embraces.
In the heat of this August night / Tempered by a breeze
Summer senses etch into my mind
So, I’ll remember summers,
summers, summers like these.