That Summer Feeling - Jonathan Richman

When there’s things to do not because you gotta

When you run for love not because you oughta

When you trust your friends with no reason notta

The joy I’ve named shall not be tamed

And that summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life

When the cool of the pond makes you drop down on it When the smell of the lawn makes you flop down on it When the teenage car gets the cop down on it That time is here for one more year

And that summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life

If you’ve forgotten what I’m naming

You’re gonna long to reclaim it one day

Because that summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life

And if you wait until your older

A sad resentment will smolder one day

And then that summer feeling is gonna haunt you

And that summer feeling’s gonna taunt you

And then that summer feeling is gonna hurt you one day in your life

When even fourth grade starts looking good

Which you hated

And first grade’s looking good too

Overrated

And you boys long for some little girl that you dated

Do you long for her or for the way you were?

That summer feeling is gonna haunt you the rest of your life

When the Oldsmobile has got the top down on it When the catamaran has got the drop down on it When the flat of the land has got the crop down on it Some things look good before and some things never were

But that summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life

Well when your friends are in town and they got time for you

When you and them are hanging around and they don’t ignore you

When you say what you will

And they still adore you

If thats not appealing, its that summer feeling

That summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life

Its gonna haunt you

Its gonna taunt you

You’re gonna want this feeling inside one more time

Its gonna haunt you

Its gonna taunt you

You’re gonna want this feeling inside one more time

When you’re hangin around the park with the water fountain

And there’s the little girl with the dirty ankles

But she’s on the swings where all the dust is kickin up And you remember the ankle locket

And the way she flirted with you

For all this time how come?

Well that summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life

You’ll throw away everything for it (2X)

When the playground that just was all dirt comes hauntin

And that little girl that called you a flirt

Memory comes tauntin

You pick these things apart they’re not that appealin

You put them together and you’ll get a certain feeling

That summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life