Songs that are about, or at least highlight, the END of summer

friedemann's indian summer is a whole instrumental album about the end of summer. it's absolutely gorgeous.

Kid Rock - "All Summer Long"
Keith Urban - "'Til Summer Comes Around"

Man I was never really a big fan of Buffalo Tom but I just went back and listened to "Summer" which was on one of those old CMJ CDs I somehow still had and thats a pretty great tune. Such great vocal melodies.

Not much of a fan either, but that was a solid tune that one.

Anyone up in this bitch down with Al Stewart's Indian Summer?

Two years and no "Summer Soft"?

And she's goooooooooawawawawawawn
Yes she's goooooooooawawawawawawn
Summer's goooooooooawawawawawawn
And in
comes
aut
umn

"Come Monday," Jimmy Buffett (just heard this on the radio yesterday):

Headin' up to San Francisco
For the Labor Day week-end show
I've got my hush-puppies on
I guess I never was meant for glitter rock and
roll
And Honey I didn't know
That I'd be missin' you so

Chorus:
Come Monday, it'll be all right
Come Monday, I'll be holdin' you tight
I spent four lonely days in a brown L. A. haze
And I just want you back by my side

Yes, it's been quite a summer
Rent-a-cars and west-bound trains
And now you're off on vacation
Something you tried to explain
And Darlin' it's I love you so
That's the reason I just let you go

Thin White Rope, 'Thing', off Moonhead

The way the two of you were standing outside the door
I knew it was the end of your dream
And when you walked into the room without your girl
You didn't have to say a word to me

In the long lonesome summer many things will change
A lot of part time friends will move along
When good times have you smiling I know you're in there dying
Because it's just another good time gone

One of the times we got to work a little late
For drinking on a night too hot to sleep
You said you didn't mind going on this way
As long as it was good enough for me

They say the weather's changing, seasons are rearranging
Summer's never been this long before
Sometimes it makes me spin how things were so different then
But lately they aren't different anymore

"Dyin' All Young" by Chuck Prophet, which has the great lines:
He broke his mama's heart
Something pulled him like the tide
Up on the banks of Methodonia
Laid down and closed his eyes

3+ years without "Summer Nights" from Grease?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjrEAvib5o

^1 of my fav songs of the last few yrs

How about Abba's "Our Last Summer"?

Cruzados, "Summer's Come, Summer's Gone" (from 1987)

Jonathan Richman - "That Summer Feeling"

When even fourth grade starts looking good
Which you hated
And first grade's looking good too
Overrated
And you boys long for some little girl that you dated
Do you long for her or for the way you were?
That summer feeling is gonna haunt you the rest of your life

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, August 19, 2006 1:04 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this song is enormously moving to me btw

Fennesz - Endless Summer works for this thread, as does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9buNckusos0

beach boys, "girl don't tell me," which looks at the beginning of this summer thru the lens of the end of last summer, and therefore is really about the end of last summer when it gets right down to it.

"Urge For Going" by Joni Mitchell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV3DbemBDhU

Style Council - Long Hot Summer

Taylor Swift, "Tim McGraw"

Just a boy in a Chevy truck,
That had a tendency of gettin’ stuck,
On backroads at night
An’ I was right there beside him all summer long
An’ then the time we woke up to find that summer’d gone

Dusty Springfield - Summer Is Over
Carole King - I Didn't Have Any Summer Romance

christy cummins, "summer memories"

(i'm spending my evening following youtube links for something called "teensound girls," which seems to be an endless collection of second-rate late '50s and early '60s girl group pop with deliciously weird arrangements by people like christy cummins, courtney rain, clairette clement, bernadette carroll, claudia carithose and literally dozens of others who i know nothing or next-to-nothing about, and half of whose names appear to be misspelled on these clips, and i love that there was a singer named christy cummins, and it occurs to me that everyone i listed above and most of what i have listened to so far are artists whose first and/or last name begins with a C, even though i am just aimlessly following youtube links, and, well, this particular song is called "summer memories" so there you go.)

Fuzzy - Summer Is Gone

In Flames -- Darker Times (first line: "September is here again.")

Ash "Oh Yeah", but that's about the start of the summer

Yo La Tengo's "Summer," though I can't really tell if it's about the end of summer. The melancholy feel and line "'til the summer comes undone" make it seem like it is.

Loudon Wainwright III - "Summer's Almost Over"

On Some Faraway Beach, Eno?

According to Ken Emerson (in his Stephen Foster book Doo Dah), Thomas Moore's 19th Century "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer" (a song I'm not sure I've ever heard) "may have been the first song ever to sell more than a million copies." (Sheet music, obviously.)