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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.
I'd be comin'
Ain't a man alive that likes to be alone.
Smilin'
Have I been, have I been away so long?
I am tired...
I could slow down for a little while.
Get back to loving each other,
Leave all those long and lonesome miles...
Behind.
Worth the tellin'.
And you'd be right in guessin' that each and every lesson
They were hard won.
I am tired...
I could slow down for a little while.
Get back to loving each other,
Leave all those long and lonesome miles...
Behind.
Wherever she goes,
You love her,
And you just wanted to know.
You'll find a way
'Cause you love her,
And you just wanted to know.
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When I first heard this song, I fell in love with it. I sat down with my Taylor guitar and figured out the chords immediately. It spoke to me about my life so much. It took me back to the summer of 1974 that I spent falling in Love with my "first love". We parted ways a couple of years later in my Senior year of high school. I did not see her or speak to her for 35 years after that. Two years ago our lives came together again and we were married last summer. This song makes me think about that special summer, the void of 35 years and the awesome thing called fate. The beauty of Poetry / lyrics is often they relate to each of us in different ways and become special to us in our own unique way. Such a beautifully written song...
Your comment brought tears to my eyes. Not only did you bring out the hopeless romantic in me, but you made me hopeful. The love of my life, the one that touched my heart like no other, and from the moment we met neither couldn't explain any of what was going on, we just knew how we felt and it was that kind of love that I had forever wished, dreamed, hoped and prayed for my whole life - and one neither of us experienced or knew existed before then.
Your comment brought tears to my eyes. Not only did you bring out the hopeless romantic in me, but you made me hopeful. The love of my life, the one that touched my heart like no other, and from the moment we met neither couldn't explain any of what was going on, we just knew how we felt and it was that kind of love that I had forever wished, dreamed, hoped and prayed for my whole life - and one neither of us experienced or knew existed before then.
The first song given to me by him was Ray...
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.
Somewhere along the lines of a man wanting to come back to a women he loves after being away from her for a long time. With the "for the summer" line, I can't tell if its just a playful question he asks or if he's begging to come back to her, but I guess that's the beauty of being poetic whereas you can make your own interpretation. With the the last few lines of the song, I feel its his relationship advice and justifications for being away from someone he loves: his travelling/break up and eventual reunion made him realize how he'll "follow her" because he "loves her" and without this time apart he wouldn't have found out He just "wanted to know" if she was the one.
okay I pretty much agree with what you have to say but I think a little bit differently about it. I feel like this song is a beautiful way of saying how close he really once came to actually settling down. He wants to come back and revisit those memories but still knows right now he cannot be fully committed that's why it's just for the summer. He will somehow always find her (follow her) and they will be in each others lives. Almost every time Ray writes a song it blows me out the summer. He is even more amazing live, this song and hold you in my arms brought me to tears at millennium park.
out of the water*
Perhaps he wrote it while on the road touring and wishing he could get off the treadmill with his sweetheart.
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!