Iowa
Dar Williams

The summer ends and we wonder where we are
And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car
And you both look so young
And last night was hard, you said
You packed up every room
And then you cried and went to bed
But today you closed the door and said
We have to get a move on.
It's just that time of year when we push ourselves ahead,
We push ourselves ahead.

And it was cloudy in the morning
And it rained as you drove away
And the same things looked different
It's the end of the summer
It's the end of the summer,
When you move to another place

And I feel like the neighbor's girl who will never be the same
She walked alone all spring,
She had a boyfriend when the summer came
And he gave her flowers in a lightning storm
They disappeared at night in green fields of silver corn
And sometime in July she just forgot that he was leaving
So when the fields were dying, she held on to his sleeves
She held on to his sleeves

And she doesn't want to let go
'Cause she won't know what she's up against
The classrooms and the smart girls
It's the end of the summer
It's the end of the summer
When you hang your flowers up to dry

And I had a dream it blows the autumn through my head
It felt like the first day of school
But I was going to the moon instead
And I walked down the hall
With the notebooks they got for me
My dad led me through the house
My mom drank instant coffee
And I knew that I would crash
But I didn't want to tell them
There are just some moments when your family makes sense
They just make sense

So I raised up my arms and my mother put the sweater on
We walked out on the dark and frozen grass
The end of the summer
It's the end of the summer
When you send your children to the moon

The summer ends and we wonder who we are
And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car
And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree
I passed the farms that made it
Through the last days of the century
And I knew that I was going to learn again
Again, in this less hazy light
I saw the fields beyond the fields
The fields beyond the fields

And the colors are much brighter now
It's like they really want to tell the truth
We give our testimony to the end of the summer
It's the end of the summer,
You can spin the light to gold.


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  After All   After All [DVD]   All My Heroes Are Dead   Alleluia   And A God Descended   Another Mystery   Anthem   Are You Out There   Are You Out There Intro   Arrival   As Cool As I Am   Beautiful Enemy   Better Things   Blue Light of the Flame   Book of Love   Bought And Sold   Buzzer   Calamity John   Calling The Moon   Christians and Pagans   Closer to Me   College Girl   Comfortably Numb   Comfortably Numb - Ani Difranco   Crystal Creek   Echoes   Elegy   Empire   End of the Summer   Everybody Knows this is Nowhere   Family   Farewell To The Old Me   February   Fishing In The Morning   Flinty Kind Of Woman   For Everyone   Go To The Woods   Highway Patrolman   Holly Ann (The Weaver Song)   Holly Tree   Hudson   I am the one who will remember everything   I Had No Right   I Have Been Around the World   I Have Lost My Dreams   I Love, I Love   I Love, I Love [Travelling II]   I Saw A Bird Fly Away   I Will Free Myself   I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono   I'll Miss You Till I Meet You   If I Wrote You   Imagine   In Love But Not At Peace   Iowa (Traveling 3)   Iowa (Traveling III)   Ireland   It Happens Every Day   It Happens Every Day [DVD]   It's A War In There   It's Alright   Liar   Mark Rothko Song   Mercy Of The Fallen   Midnight Radio   Mortal City   My Friends   New York Is a Harbor   O Canada   O Canada Girls   Party Generation   Play The Greed   Playing To The Firmament   Road Buddy   So Close to My Heart   Southern California Wants To Be Western New York   Southern California Wants To Be Western New&hellip...   Spring Street   Starman   Stop Smoking   Storm King   Summer Child   Summerday   Teen For God   Teenagers, Kick Our Butts   Terrarium   The Babysitter's Here   The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen   The Ballad Of Mary Magdalene   The Beauty of the Rain   The Blessings   The Business of Things   The Christians & The Pagans   The Christians & The Pagans   The Christians and the Pagans   The Easy Way   The End of the Summer   The Great Unknown   The Hudson   The Light and the Sea   The Ocean   The One Who Knows   The Poignant, Yet Pointless, Crisis Of A Coed   The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co - Ed   The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed   The Tide Falls Away   The Weaver Song   The World's Not Falling Apart   This Earth   This Is Not The House That Pain Built   This Land Is Your Land   This Was Pompeii   Traveling Again   Traveling Again (Traveling 1)   Traveling Again (Traveling I)   Troubled Times   Two Sides of the River   We Learned The Sea   Weight of the World   What Do You Hear in These Sounds   What Do You Love More Than Love   When I Was A Boy   When It Gets That Way   When Sal's Burned Down   Whispering Pines   Wild Mountain Thyme   Wilder Than Her   You Are Everyone   You Rise and Meet the Day   You Will Ride With Me Tonight   You're Aging Well   Your Fire Your Soul

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