As I see it, it's an age metaphor, can be also metaphor for love, and all other things that we do:
Spring =early youth
Summer = real,full, mature youth
Autumn = mature age
'Look deep into the April face
A change is clearly taking place
Looking for the summer
The eyes take on a certain gaze
And leave behind the springtime days
Go looking for the summer'
A guy is looking at his daughter with his wife (they are in autumn now), and (maybe her name is April, it's a nice word play:) she is in her spring time now, but she is moving into her summer (she is looking for the summer now)
'This ain't no game of kiss and tell
The implications how you knew so well
Go looking for the summer
The time has come and they must go
To play the passion out that haunts you so
Looking for the summer
Remember love how it was the same
We scratched and hurt each other's growing pains
We were looking for the summer'
Well, i think a girl is in a relationship, having some trouble now. Her mother is not happy about it, she talks about that relationship and how she was 'right' about that boy her daughter is with. Mothers can be very analytical about those things, they are 'judging' and 'analysing' everything about boy/girl. And know the mother is saying how it proves that she was right, how she 'knew so well'
He is saying that she should let her go, and let them 'play that passion', that she is so haunted with. He is saying that she must let her daughter go to reach her summer, the time has come. It's nothing strange, just 'looking for the summer'
He also reminds her that it was the same for them, they were also looking for the summer, so they 'scratched and hurt each other's growing pains'
'And still I stand this very day
With a burning wish to fly away
I'm still looking, looking for the summer'
Maybe he and his way should have separated when they 'scratched and hurt each other's growing pains' because obviously nothing had developed from that. Because he hasn't found his summer yet, he feels stifled and he wants to fly, to break free. A bit sad, this last verse.
As I see it, it's an age metaphor, can be also metaphor for love, and all other things that we do: Spring =early youth Summer = real,full, mature youth Autumn = mature age
'Look deep into the April face A change is clearly taking place Looking for the summer
The eyes take on a certain gaze And leave behind the springtime days Go looking for the summer'
A guy is looking at his daughter with his wife (they are in autumn now), and (maybe her name is April, it's a nice word play:) she is in her spring time now, but she is moving into her summer (she is looking for the summer now)
'This ain't no game of kiss and tell The implications how you knew so well Go looking for the summer
The time has come and they must go To play the passion out that haunts you so Looking for the summer
Remember love how it was the same We scratched and hurt each other's growing pains We were looking for the summer'
Well, i think a girl is in a relationship, having some trouble now. Her mother is not happy about it, she talks about that relationship and how she was 'right' about that boy her daughter is with. Mothers can be very analytical about those things, they are 'judging' and 'analysing' everything about boy/girl. And know the mother is saying how it proves that she was right, how she 'knew so well' He is saying that she should let her go, and let them 'play that passion', that she is so haunted with. He is saying that she must let her daughter go to reach her summer, the time has come. It's nothing strange, just 'looking for the summer' He also reminds her that it was the same for them, they were also looking for the summer, so they 'scratched and hurt each other's growing pains'
'And still I stand this very day With a burning wish to fly away I'm still looking, looking for the summer'
Maybe he and his way should have separated when they 'scratched and hurt each other's growing pains' because obviously nothing had developed from that. Because he hasn't found his summer yet, he feels stifled and he wants to fly, to break free. A bit sad, this last verse.