Lyric discussion by FifthDentist 

Cover art for In Steps lyrics by Letting Up Despite Great Faults

A beautiful, haunting tid bit of a song. It stirs the melancholy in me, that for certain.

I agree that it's about how when a relationship is waning, a sudden "emergency" can bring people back together, whether that emergency is real or self-created. But it's an echo of the past when you needed each other; it's hollow now. When the crisis ends, the distance re-appears. And yet he clings to hope of a second try, sometime in an idealized, unachievable summer that he knows will never happen.