"For The Summer" as written by and Raycharles Jack Lamontagne....
Rollin' through these hills I've known I'd be comin'
Ain't a man alive that likes to be alone?
Been a while since I seen my lady smilin'
Have I been, have I been away so long?
I am tired
I am tired
Can I come home for the summer?
I could slow down for a little while
Get back to loving each other
Leave all those long and lonesome miles behind
Through the years I have learned
Some things worth the tellin'
And you'd be right in guessin'
That each and every lesson they were hard won
I am tired
I am tired
Can I come home for the summer?
I could slow down for a little while
Get back to loving each other
Leave all those long and lonesome miles behind
You'll follow her wherever she goes
You love her and you just wanted to know
That you'll follow her, you'll find a way
Cause you love her and you just wanted to know
Ain't a man alive that likes to be alone?
Been a while since I seen my lady smilin'
Have I been, have I been away so long?
I am tired
I am tired
Can I come home for the summer?
I could slow down for a little while
Get back to loving each other
Leave all those long and lonesome miles behind
Through the years I have learned
Some things worth the tellin'
And you'd be right in guessin'
That each and every lesson they were hard won
I am tired
I am tired
Can I come home for the summer?
I could slow down for a little while
Get back to loving each other
Leave all those long and lonesome miles behind
You'll follow her wherever she goes
You love her and you just wanted to know
That you'll follow her, you'll find a way
Cause you love her and you just wanted to know
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"For the Summer" as written by Raycharles Jack Lamontagne
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The first song given to me by him was Ray Lamontagne You Are The Best Thing. Today I come across this song for the first time and it reached down in to the depths of my heart and soul. I want to dedicate this to him, but I will let it be for now. I so badly would love to put those long and lonesome miles behind us, because that is what was hardest for us, the time apart.
I never doubted his love for me, and still feels he cares and perhaps has never loved like that again. It's my intuition talking. Forget the miles as when we were together it was the most inner peace and love we have both felt in our lives. Miles between replaced with time in each others arms, I feel and truly do believe it would have been magical, as what we had was just that. It will be a year apart at the end of April, and there isn't a day I don't miss him.
Even though I am still healing, I believe the last day traveling those miles between, was the day I left my heart behind. He doesn't want to be alone, and I believe that eventually he will listen to the lesson in love, and realize where his heart truly is. I know the lesson I've been taught, and through it all, I've been unconditional and have never stopped loving him. But I guess that's how it is when you experience a love so pure and true.
Thank you for your response. My heart is bursting right now. Congrats on your forever. The universe has sent so many signs, hearts every where unexpected in the sky between the sun, the moon, the clouds, rocks, even grease stains on the ground and the left over mark from the salt thrown on the snow. Taking a photo of what wasn't a heart while he was on my mind, honestly turned out to be the most perfect heart shaped moon, you'd think I messed with the photo.
Where there is one without the one she loves, none of it will not be forgotten, but cherished. They say memories fade, but as they fade I find them awaken again by a smell, sound, or perhaps in every time the idea of loves comes to mind. It's amazing what love can do. Thanks again.
I spent five years working long distances from home and sometimes could only get home once every couple of weeks if I was lucky. This song reminds me of how I felt in those days, wishing I could make it all stop, just for a little while, and be home with my sweetheart. I wouldn't be able to stay because I'd have to get back out there, but oh, it would be nice to have that summertime feeling of endless days, just for a little while.
When Ray sings the line "get back to loving each other," it sounds like "get back to love and each other," which provides multiple levels of meaning. He may have written it the first way, but I prefer the second. :-)
And all this goes to show what happens when a song, or poem, or story, or whatever gets out into the hands of listeners and readers: it takes on many new lives. I often wonder what the writers of these songs would think if they every drop in on these threads.
Thanks, Ray!