Squeaky swings and tall grass

The longest shadows ever cast

The water’s warm and children swim

We frolicked about in our summer skin

I don’t recall a single care

Just greenery and humid air

Then Labor Day came and went

And we shed what was left of our summer skin

On the night you left I came over

And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders

Our brand new coats so flushed and pink

And I knew your heart I couldn’t win

Cause the season’s change was a conduit

And we’d left our love in our summer skin.

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