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(Only A) Summer Love

This version of (Only A) Summer Love was released by Reo Speedwagon in 1976.

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Now there’s nothing left to do
but to lay my head down for sleeping
I’m weak with exhaustion and the lover’s blues
and I still can’t forget those weeks I had with you
But I guess it was only a summer love
Nothing too serious and nothing to last
I feel like a fool to be longing for that lyin’ summer love

Once we both loved just a bit too hard
for deep down we both knew it was dyin’
And we both talked just a little about forever
but we both knew we were doing some lyin’.

Now the snow falls, freezing my hurt for you
but some nights I feel it’s still there.
I’ve come back now to the life I’ve known before you
but I doesn’t have the same old meaning.

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The lyrics to (Only A) Summer Love are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Reo Speedwagon in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to (Only A) Summer Love are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Reo Speedwagon and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for (Only A) Summer Love back when it was created.

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