A few of the vast number I thought of in a flash that made my brain sizzle like a cracked egg on hot pavement:
David Sylvian/Rain Tree Crow - Rain Tree Crow - Pocket Full of Change
...She brings me water
Sweeter than wine
Lost in the moment
Summertime...
And, one of my all time favorite
Pink Floyd songs, from
Atom Heart Mother, one of my favorite P.F.
albums which also contains the piece
Summer '68.
Fat Old Sun
When the fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evening birds are calling
Summer's thunder time of year
The sound of music in my ears
Distant bells
New mown grass smells so sweet
By the river holding hands
Roll me up and lay me down
And if you sit
Don't make a sound
Pick your feet up off the ground
And if you hear as the warm night falls
The silver sound from a time so strange
Sing to me, sing to me
When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evening birds are calling
Children's laughter in my ears
The last sunlight disappears
And if you sit
Don't make a sound
Pick your feet up off the ground
And if you hear as the warm night falls
The silver sound from a time so strange
Sing to me, sing to me
Brian Eno - Another Green World - Everything Merges With the Night
Rosalie, I've been waiting all evening
Possibly years, I don't know
Counting the passing hours
Everything merges with the night
I stand on the beach, giving out descriptions
Different for everyone I see
Since I just can't remember
Longer than last September
Santiago, under the volcano
Floats like a cushion on the sea
Yet I can never sleep here
Everything ponders in the night
Rosalie, we've been talking all summer
Picking the straw from our clothes
See how the breeze has softened
Everything pauses in the night
And, of course...
Summertime (By
George Gershwin, from
Porgy and Bess, and as covered by Peter Gabriel (my personal favorite), Tori Amos and many others...
(There are more than
2600 known covers))
Summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich and your mama's good lookin'
So hush little baby now, don't you cry
One of these mornin's, you're gonna rise up singin'
You're gonna spread your wings and take to the sky
But til that mornin', ain't nothin' can harm you
With your daddy & your mammy standin' by