The Honey Badgers - Summer Skin (WXPN Song Challenge 2024)

Our entry in the WXPN Song Challenge 2024, theme "Summertime."

(our new album is out on 6/20/24! https://linktr.ee/honeybadgerfolk)

© 2024 Erin Magnin & Michael Natrin, BMI
https://www.honeybadgerfolk.com

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Verse 1
Summer solstice, looks like rain
Locking eyes on the longest day
Come together then move away
Summer solstice, looks like rain

Verse 2
Sweat bitter, sweet grass skin
Rush of blood when it begins
Feels like fire from way back when
In my periphery I can see the end

Pre-Chorus
You’re only mine like a summer night
Short and sweet and choking on the heat

Chorus 1
I’m in my summer skin
Just for a while
The autumn covets and is waiting in the wings

Fireflies in mid-July
Gone in an instant
Don’t you love the things you know will soon expire

Verse 3
Floating down the Delaware
Sun so hot but I don’t care
I’ll still smell your citrus hair
When we look back in 30 years

Pre-Chorus
Chorus 1
Chorus 2
I’m in my summer skin
Just for a while-----------

(Instrumental)

Outro
Sticking to the black-top
Trying to run but time’s stopped
Garden falls to sweet rot
The ending’s all that we got