Summer and Smoke

Song Description

This is a song about growing up in Atlantic City, NJ, and facing the changes that have occurred there over the years.

Song Length 3:04 Genre Rock - Roots/Rock n' Roll
Lead Vocal Male Vocal

Lyrics

Summer has ended again this year
The carousel's run out of steam
September is always so bittersweet
The beginning and end of a dream
And me I just missed the pageant
Miss America turned a blind eye
The world in my hand, turned into sand
I guess I'll never know why

And it's all just summer and smoke
I've been there when the lights go on
It's never the same when you're in on a joke
It's all just summer and smoke

Superstar surfers riding the crest
Of a wave that won't ever break
While back on the beach it's just history and me
And a past that continues to ache
I'm afraid the parade's passed me by this time
The boardwalk so empty and still
While these ghostly towns, all ups and downs
Sleep in the South Jersey chill

Chorus

Now I don't want to be some wounded old hero
Who never came home from the war
I'd rather lay down my guns and not get any older
In this place where the sea meets the shore

Chorus

Lyrics Ken Shane Music Ken Shane
Producer Ken Shane

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