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Summer's Almost Gone Lyrics
Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
Almost gone
Yeah, it's almost gone
Where will we be
When the summer's gone?
Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be
Where will we be
Where will we be
Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be
Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
We had some good times
But they're gone
The winter's comin' on
Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
Almost gone
Yeah, it's almost gone
Where will we be
When the summer's gone?
Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be
Where will we be
Where will we be
Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be
Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
We had some good times
But they're gone
The winter's comin' on
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it seems that this song is actually about death. if they were just talking about the summer being over and the good times that were had, i think they would have made it more of an upbeat song. instead its a deeply sad song. 'morning found us calmly unaware' - morning may be a time when not everyone is thinking about death but instead thinking about what the day has in store. 'we had some good times but there gone.' 'when summers gone, where will we be?' to me that is the ultimate question facing humanity. an afterlife? jim truly knows where we will be when summer is gone.
Summer love, maybe a vacation love with someone waiting home. Enough time to click and have great memories, not enough for it to go sour...
I like to think of this song from the perspective of someone stranded on an island...
They are enjoying being alone on their own private island... But summer is leaving and when you are stranded on an island, winter is always a big issue.
Anyway, nice little tropical stranded island song to think about, making the best of a bad situation, but it always comes to an end.
To me this seems like a song about the LA bar scene in the 60's into the 70's. "At night we swim the laughin' sea" is out at the bars getting high or drunk looking for women. "Morning found us calmly unaware" again, emerging from the haze of the previous night. "Where will we be when the summer is gone"? Back to the real world, college or work. As I age maybe aging figures into the meaning as well. Two things can be true.
fuck :( it is almost gone
deff a subtle referal to the Great Depression..it becomes more and more obvious to me as i hear it.
i always took it in more metaphorically. i don't think it necessarily has to do with the summer season or the time periods during the day, but more with the various relationship stages people undego in their associations.
summer; the relationship/friendship/acquaintance itself morning; the beginning, the meeting of a new person noon; the middle, the point in which the relationship is neutral/comfortable/enjoyable night; the climax, the point where its gotten as pleasant as its going to get before receeding back into nothing special
i think he was just trying to addess the relations he'd had with the people that had entered and exited his life.
Amazing song...one of their best underratted ballads. "At night we swim the laughin' sea" - Morrison is a true poet.
regardless of what this song means (which it probably is a metaphor like you guys are saying), i've been listening to this song non-stop for the past week or so... alas, summer IS almost gone sigh
I forget the album but this song is right before wintertime love. I'm thinking that's not coincidence - I think they're related. He could be worried that the summertime lover will be over when the summer's over. I felt this way during summer knowing this song, it didn't work, and now it's a bummer of a song to me. SAAD~ See wintertime love by the doors too~