Summer Dreams by Ronnie Day Lyrics

The walls in this old place are so familiar
And with the windows they will filter
All the thoughts that lost their minds
And all the thoughts that challenge times

With her black hair in her eyes she's disconnected
She's deflected their main objective
She's out of line; she's doing fine
As she defines her own design

If you close your eyes
You can almost see her--
See her just the way she is--
And if you listen right
You just might believe her, believe me

Summer days have gone away
But summer dreams are here to stay
And she's sending her heart to California
While all her family sits and waits
And all her friends anticipate
A time when they'll find
That she's come back to join the
World outside of California
She's barely hit 16 and she is dying
She's defying the hand that's trying
To wake her up, to raise the stakes
To show her what steps she must take
As the doctors dose her up she's on the boardwalk
With the "Tick-Tock" of heels on flip-flops
She loves the rides that flow like tides
That go so high they touch the sky
They touch the sky

She's where the nights are warm and the days are long
And when the day is gone the night lives on
She tells me she needs to fly
And her hair looks right in the coastal wind
And when the fog sits light and her curls set in
She tells me she needs to fly
She tells me she needs to fly