[Verse

Baked beans sim'llrin' on my momma's stove

Sunbeams streamin' through the window

My baby settled in bed on a moonlight night

Dog's barkin' at the neighbor callin'

[Verse

Oh summer's gale

Tears apart this place

As if she was never around

Wake up with her eth'real remnants

Absorbin' the dew on the ground

[Chorus

Summer's gale robs me blind

Like the boys in old Tijuana

Who told me not to go

But rather run

But I thought I knew better

It's almost October

[Verse

Other kids are stompin' through the street in joy

When everything smells like plastic and pork

Takin' up recklessly expansive hobbies

With funds as empty as their bottles

[Verse

Babe's shirts waitin' for the garden to grow

Hoagies rollin' like fatty pianos

Beer by a spruce tree singin' the old hymns

That'll heal with time as skin

[Bridge

How you gonna do it? How you gonna manage?

Thinkin' 'bout the things I didn't have

How you gonna do it? How you gonna manage?

Thinkin' 'bout the things I didn't have