It feels to me that the "summer" is actually an unreal plain, in the first verse he talks about walking through a "door" into summer and also how beyond this door his mind is blank "speechless" in the sunlight. Defiantly describing the blank, hazy feeling that a drug can give you.
In the second verse he talks about someone else, who is slipping out of this hazy "unreal city" and back into the real world; but he is still in that city.
Somehow the chorus "the gas fire flares into the light, & I am in this house on fire" felt to me like the gas fire in the room fell and set the house on fire while he was still in the unreal city "watching the clouds go by'
In the third verse it sounds like he is just voicing the deep/sometimes pointless thoughts one gets in that hazy state. The "deals & trials on Ganton Street " are the problems and hardships of everyday life and how he hopes that one day they will be carried away from all of that.
In the fourth verse he is picking up somebody afterwards, still feeling the effects of the drug.
The final verse starts of with the same two lines as the first describing how it is another day, and yet nothing seems to have changed, and he has come back once again to forget reality.
I'm probably reading much to much into this but oh well.
Its rather obvious that he's describing a high.
It feels to me that the "summer" is actually an unreal plain, in the first verse he talks about walking through a "door" into summer and also how beyond this door his mind is blank "speechless" in the sunlight. Defiantly describing the blank, hazy feeling that a drug can give you.
In the second verse he talks about someone else, who is slipping out of this hazy "unreal city" and back into the real world; but he is still in that city.
Somehow the chorus "the gas fire flares into the light, & I am in this house on fire" felt to me like the gas fire in the room fell and set the house on fire while he was still in the unreal city "watching the clouds go by'
In the third verse it sounds like he is just voicing the deep/sometimes pointless thoughts one gets in that hazy state. The "deals & trials on Ganton Street " are the problems and hardships of everyday life and how he hopes that one day they will be carried away from all of that.
In the fourth verse he is picking up somebody afterwards, still feeling the effects of the drug.
The final verse starts of with the same two lines as the first describing how it is another day, and yet nothing seems to have changed, and he has come back once again to forget reality.
I'm probably reading much to much into this but oh well.