The Summer With The Sun

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The Summer With The Sun

By Ryan Johnston

Summertime flies by again,

Waving goodbye, with the grace of a hurricane

The weight behind it’s vengeful hand

Pulled our bridges down 

From that view, we could finally see 

They were held together 

By nothing more than our dreams

Crashing loud, to the hardest ground

Cutting air, and the sound it makes

When it echoes in your tired mind

Falling away into that empty canyon, 

The slice we made on that wall of time

Never heals, and it always bleeds

One Summer, I know I’ll find you again

The wreckage in your rear-view mirror

Is the rubble that used to be our home

Sometimes it feels like we’re still there

Underneath the stars, underneath the stairs

Seven Years, at four in the morning

My eyes ignite, your voice is a spark

The room is gasoline, when you sing into the dark

Falling from the sky, you’re the burning rain

And I still find myself running through it

Crashing down, without a sound

A falling tree, in the forest with no one around

The silent air holds me there

In Winter’s frozen headlights

And everything fell down

That weekend you left town

The lights went out for me 

Apartment walls breathed me in

It was like all the time we killed

Waited upstairs for revenge

Blood poured out from those walls

Like a heartbreak waterfall

Treading downstairs 

After everybody was gone

I remember thinking, that I could spend the rest of my life

Sitting outside in the warm night, and listen to you talk

About childhood ghosts and imaginary friends

Connecting with black cats and mystical things

You never see it ending, until your writing it all down

I remember thinking, that I could spend the rest of the night

Trying to explain how you colored my eyes like the sunrise

Does to the morning sky, when I was just getting out of work

I can still see the broken stool outside the front door

Where we used to talk about all of our dreams

We couldn’t know then, that we would never fall back to sleep