(x2)
The winter doesn’t want you
It haunts you, summer serenading’s a long way
From this frozen place, your face
Our teacher, our preacher
It’s nature, and like flowers growing in a bomb crater
From nothing a rose, it grows
I been thinking ‘bout the West Coast
Not the one that everyone knows
I'm sick of living in the shadows
We’ve one more chance before the light goes
Chorus 1:
Before the summer of love
Summer of love
We’re freezing, we’re leaving
Believing that all we need’s ahead of us somewhere
In a summer to come, so we run
I been thinking ‘bout the West Coast
Not the one that everyone knows
I'm sick of living in the shadows
We’ve one more chance before the light goes
Chorus 2:
Before the summer of love
Summer of love
Oh, and when all is lost
When all is lost, we find out what remains
Oh, the same ocean’s crossed
The summer’s pleasure, the summer's pain
I been thinking ‘bout the West Coast
Not the one that everyone knows
In the rubble of Aleppo
Flowers blooming in the shadows
Chorus 2:
Before the summer of love
Summer of love