Summer in Chicago by The Small Calamities Lyrics
[Verse 1]
This is the place where it all went down: the southern side of a northern town, and you warned me
Yeah, you warned me
[Verse 2]
This is the place where you took my hand, when you wanted things I can't understand, and I told you what I had to
[PreChorus 1]
Here we stand on our own—hiding in the crowd
Bathed in light, electrified, in and out of view
[Chorus 1]
If we could count the days, the floodgates and the radio, remembering your face… I would throw it all away
It's summer in Chicago, and everything is still the same
[Verse 3]
3am waiting for a sign like a downtown drill—get you off my mind—but you're sleeping
[Voicemail: Spoken]
Hey Charlie, hoping you're doing great. I just have a question... How is it going to be?
[Verse 4]
Watching ghosts on a burning bridge til it's Sunday church for this Friday kid and I'm sleeping
You're not sleeping
[PreChorus 2]
There were no photographs, just embers in the ring…
Lingered eyes, forgotten time, and somewhere you were singing on the train back home
[Chorus 2]
If we could count the days, the floodgates and the radio, remembering your face… I would throw it all away
It's summer in Chicago, and everything is still...
[Bridge]
...the same way that you said your piece, i was deaf & dumb, you were out of reach, and i will remember the last time
[Coda]
If we could count the days, the floodgates and the radio...
Yeah you know, yeah you know, yeah you know that I would throw it all away
It's summer in Chicago, and everything is still the same
Everything is still the same
This is the place where it all went down: the southern side of a northern town, and you warned me
Yeah, you warned me
[Verse 2]
This is the place where you took my hand, when you wanted things I can't understand, and I told you what I had to
[PreChorus 1]
Here we stand on our own—hiding in the crowd
Bathed in light, electrified, in and out of view
[Chorus 1]
If we could count the days, the floodgates and the radio, remembering your face… I would throw it all away
It's summer in Chicago, and everything is still the same
[Verse 3]
3am waiting for a sign like a downtown drill—get you off my mind—but you're sleeping
[Voicemail: Spoken]
Hey Charlie, hoping you're doing great. I just have a question... How is it going to be?
[Verse 4]
Watching ghosts on a burning bridge til it's Sunday church for this Friday kid and I'm sleeping
You're not sleeping
[PreChorus 2]
There were no photographs, just embers in the ring…
Lingered eyes, forgotten time, and somewhere you were singing on the train back home
[Chorus 2]
If we could count the days, the floodgates and the radio, remembering your face… I would throw it all away
It's summer in Chicago, and everything is still...
[Bridge]
...the same way that you said your piece, i was deaf & dumb, you were out of reach, and i will remember the last time
[Coda]
If we could count the days, the floodgates and the radio...
Yeah you know, yeah you know, yeah you know that I would throw it all away
It's summer in Chicago, and everything is still the same
Everything is still the same