Summer

Some of the happiest days are when the sun rays cascade
 Over your back in the most naturally placid of ways
 You don't have to ask whether perhaps it'll rain
 And the centigrade never strays past twenty eight
 It's fantastically great kicking back with your mates
 And knowing no, you don't have to act to your age
 You can snack on a Flake or take a basket of cakes
 But make sure you've got some factor eight splashed on your face
 And the ladies make daisies attached in a chain
 While the lads entertain them with a basketball game
 And then after we're knackered and the match has been played
 Grab a glass of lemonade and relax in the shade
 We'll bask and just laze in the grass's green blades
 And sit back and just gaze at the paths of the planes
 Nothing matters today, you can chatter and play
 Playful antics under blankets of immaculate haze
 Once upon a summer
 The sun plays across the lawn
 Once upon a summer
 The air is sweet and warm
 Once upon a summer
 Heavenly and calm
 Once upon a summer
 It's never been this fun
 It's ace when you're tipsy and playing with a frisbee
 There ain't been better days in the pages of history
 And though your hay fever itches and makes you be sniffly
 It's blatantly plain that you'll savour and miss these
 Great times when they're gone, days lying in the sun
 Bathing, misbehaving and playfighting for fun
 They might have been some of the days of your life that you'll always
 Be reminded of when your time to pass away finally comes
 And as the day becomes night and the sun goes down
 The shadows grow slow and cloak round your home town
 There's no sound but the bees and the birds
 And slowly but certainly the season returns
 You turn down to the ground and there's leaves on the earth
 Turning brown and allowing the trees to rebirth
 There's a breeze in the air and it breathes through your hair
 And that's it - summer leaves for the year
 Summer's come and gone
 The day's no longer young
 Summer's come and gone
 But the memory lives on