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The Door Into Summer Lyrics
With his fool's gold stacked up all around him
From a killing in the market on the war
The children left King Midas there, as they found him
In his counting house where nothing counts but more
[Chorus]
And he thought he heard the echo of a penny whistle band
And the laughter from a distant caravan
And the brightly painted line of circus wagons in the sand
Fading through the door into summer
Well, it's travel onto "maybe next year" 's places
As a trade-in for a name upon the door
And he pays for every year he cannot buy back with his tears
As he finds out there's been no one keeping score
[Chorus]
From a killing in the market on the war
The children left King Midas there, as they found him
In his counting house where nothing counts but more
And he thought he heard the echo of a penny whistle band
And the laughter from a distant caravan
And the brightly painted line of circus wagons in the sand
Fading through the door into summer
As a trade-in for a name upon the door
And he pays for every year he cannot buy back with his tears
As he finds out there's been no one keeping score
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Such an excellent song. Lyrics alone are awesome but the plaintive melody makes it work even better. I love this song.
The song really is about greed and how being greedy can cause one to miss out on fun in life. It can be likened to the end of the Charles Dickens' story A Christmas Carol, where Ebeneezer Scrooge realizes just what his greed has gotten him and changes his ways. Here King Midas (Not sure who this is exactly - maybe someone profiting off the Vietnam war?) also realizes that he cannot go back and change the past.
Wondered for a long time what this song meant but had never sat down and looked up the lyrics; turns out they tell a pretty straightforward story despite conjuring an abstract image of blissful summer freedom that is compelling in its own right. The archetypal Scrooge-like character has spent his life working and amassing wealth without ever taking a summer vacation, then grows old and realizes it was all for nothing.