This is a beautiful song!! I personally think the song is almost about a summer love. But for him he doesn't stop loving her when the summer was over. and now she is gone and he is empty and feels nothing. "as the winter closes in" showing all the time that has past since their "summer on long island" but he understands that their love was going to end, which is why he says "I won’t cry if you can’t love me like the way it used to feel,We had our summer on Long Island, now there’s wounds that never heal. "
This is a beautiful song!! I personally think the song is almost about a summer love. But for him he doesn't stop loving her when the summer was over. and now she is gone and he is empty and feels nothing. "as the winter closes in" showing all the time that has past since their "summer on long island" but he understands that their love was going to end, which is why he says "I won’t cry if you can’t love me like the way it used to feel,We had our summer on Long Island, now there’s wounds that never heal. "