did you hear the trumpets play the day your father died?

did a violin swell those circles under your eyes? 

did you play the part straight like a marcher? 

get lost in the beat thinking and feeling? 

did the drums in the streets make the people dance? 

or fall to their knees as the sound knock the leaves from the trees 

as they fall from the branch the look beautiful as they hung in the air

spinning around did you float in the air? (spinning around)

 there must be somewhere that cigarettes burn through the night
and the leaves don't abandon their trees to the light 

where the skies always clear and the summer never ends