Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na

You crawling through the dense green carpeting
Untamed and seventies, tiny fingers couldn't pry
Their way through that thick and knotted reverie

Relapse, fall backwards and slide
Are you suggesting that
I repress, repress and disguise?

Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na

The surge of static electricity
Brought on by the fear of being seen
Creeping up in silence on the battle scene
Slow and slithering

We stand still on 4th of July
Numb to explosions that
Scream and light, light up the sky

Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na

There's a solution, it's been tested
My desire will never persevere
When swimming in serotonin
The city summer smells like perfume

So rub your wrists together
Take a swing and you'll feel better
Once you close your eyes
Pretend to sleep for hours and hours spot on

Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na na na
(Through the kitchen then up the column of my spine)
Na na na na na na na
(All of this hatred and echoing despise)

Na na na na na na na na na
(Through the kitchen then up the column of my spine)
Na na na na na na na
(All of this hatred and echoing despise)

Na na na na na na na na na
(Just hold on, hold on)
Na na na na na na na
(Just hold on, hold on)


Lyrics submitted by Meefy

The City's Summer Lyrics as written by Jarrod Gorbel

Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Lyrics powered by LyricFind

The City's Summer song meanings
Add Your Thoughts

17 Comments

sort form View by:
  • +1
    General Comment

    i don't think it makes sense at all :[[

    sleepwithgiantson April 23, 2007   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    this is what jarrod said about this song:

    "The lyrics were a bunch of different kind of lyrics put together. I spent a lot of time on them. Especially that “na na na” part, each “na” was really… I just realized how that sounded. Lyrically, it took years to evolve that “na”. When I was coming up with the second “na”, followed by a third and fourth, I would cry. You know? Like, memories would just come back. By the fifth “na”, I was on the floor. I couldn’t deal with life. What I had become and what I had gone through. I was just like… no.. um....really that was the melody I liked. But the verses span from memories of being a child to two summers ago, on a rooftop of somebody’s building at a party on the fourth of July, and being on drugs. Because you’re not going to be on the rooftop of a building on the fourth of July without being on drugs."

    theywillrockyou.com/interviews/index.php/interviews/jarrod_gorbel_of_the_honorary_title

    Meefyon January 17, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    i've been waiting for these lyrics to go up forever, haha.

    however, i have some discrepancies. i could swear he says "repress and disguise" though i'm not sure that makes sense.

    and where you have "Crawling through the dense green carpet air" i think it should be "carpeting"

    that aside, i fucking love this song. sooo amazing. i don't know what it's about other than summer.

    sleepwithgiantson April 22, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    I could have sworn he said 'disguise' also, and that is what I had originally, but I did not think that 'repress in disguise' made any sense.

    And as for the carpet part I just listened to a live track of this and I do hear more of an -ing sound

    Meefyon April 23, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    repress at the sky makes more sense though

    georgiannaon April 23, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    well, like repress means to hold back or suppress to disguise means to conceal. they are similar and so i think "repress and disguise" makes sense

    sleepwithgiantson April 23, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    repress and disguise it is

    Meefyon April 23, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    i hate you meefy!

    georgiannaon April 24, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    i do not! :-*

    sleepwithgiantson April 24, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    go die!

    georgiannaon April 24, 2007   Link

Add your thoughts

Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.

Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!

More Featured Meanings

Album art
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Album art
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Album art
I Can't Go To Sleep
Wu-Tang Clan
This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
Album art
Magical
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Album art
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.