Lyrics to
Sons Of Summer

Released by Carly Simon in 1975
From the Album: Playing Possum |

This version of Sons Of Summer was released by Carly Simon in 1975.

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It makes me smile
To think of what we dreamed of

Where are those sons of summer now
With their wild-haired women in their
patchwork gowns
Who could laugh the lights away
Nights on the beach and bay

The course on farms
And the course in the bar
Sweet smokin’ in the back of the car
Always the first time shines to last like a morning star
Like a morning star

It’s been a while since the last time we were dancing
Where are those sons of summer now
With their long-limber ladies who all knew how
To chase the blues away
I’ve got the blues today

Your ivy days and your clubhouse ways
Wine mug nights when the music played
Love that is real will not fade away like a morning star

Where are those sons of summer now
The winter has come
And you don’t know how to turn your
Dreams into coal
Your books won’t hold you
The woods get cold
And I feel too old
I begin to question your schoolboy soul
Clever remarks that once won my heart
When the fire won’t light they lose their spark
And I can’t help but get a little bit blue
thinking about the precious nothing we
Once knew


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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Sons Of Summer. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and Sons Of Summer by Carly Simon

The lyrics to Sons Of Summer are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carly Simon used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Sons Of Summer have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Carly Simon and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

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If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Sons Of Summer by Carly Simon. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Sons Of Summer" means the words set to the music of Sons Of Summer, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Sons Of Summer and the lyrics to Sons Of Summer are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sons Of Summer, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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