The summer ends and we wonder where we are

And there you go my friends with your boxes in your car

And you both look so young

And last night was hard you said

You packed up every room

And then you cried into bed



But today you closed the door

And said we have to get a move on

It’s just that time of year

When we push ourselves ahead

We push ourselves ahead



It was cloudy in the morning

And it rained as you drove away

The same things look different

It’s the end of the summer

It’s the end of the summer

When you move to another place



And I feel like a neighbor’s girl

Who will never be the same

She walked alone all spring

She had a boyfriend when the summer came

And he gave her flowers and a lightning storm

They disappeared at night in green fields of silver corn

And sometime in July

She just forgot that he was leaving

So when the fields were dying

She held onto his sleeves

She held onto his sleeves



And she doesn’t want to let go

‘Cause she won’t know what she’s up against

The classrooms and the smart girls

It’s the end of the summer

It’s the end of the summer

When you hang your flowers up to dry



And I had a dream

It blows the autumn through my head

It felt like the first day of school

But I was going to the moon instead

And I walked down the hall

With the notebooks they got for me

My dad led me through the house

My mom drank instant coffee

And I knew that I would crash

But I didn’t want to tell them

There are just some moments

When you’re family makes sense

When it just makes sense

So I raised up my arms

And my mother put the sweater on

We walked out on the dark and frozen grass

The end of summer

It’s the end of summer

When you send your children to the moon



The summer ends and we wonder who we are

And there you go my friends with your boxes in your car

And today I passed the high school, the river, and the maple tree

I passed the farms that minute

Through the last days of the century

And I knew that I was gonna learn again

Again, in this last hazy light

I saw the fields beyond the fields

The fields beyond the fields



And the colors are much brighter now

Its like they really want to tell the truth

Give our testimony to

The end of the summer

It’s the end of the summer

We can spend the light to go