For The Summer Lyrics

Lyric discussion by jrodg7789 

Cover art for For The Summer lyrics by Ray LaMontagne

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.

The first song given to me by him was Ray...