Lyric discussion by lapinfourrure 

Cover art for A Summer Wasting lyrics by Belle & Sebastian

The second bit is actually:

'Seven years of river walkways Seven weeks of staying up all night'

But that aside, this is one of the best B&S song ever, it fits so perfectly into The Boy With The Arab Strap. The whole album has that sort of mellow feeling with quite dark subject matter. He spent the summer wasted.