Summer Skin -
by Death Cab for Cutie
| Squeaking swings and tall grass | |
| The longest shadows ever cast | |
| The water's warm and children swim | |
| And we frolicked about in our summer skin | |
| I don't recall a single care | |
| Just greenery and humid air | |
| Then Labor Day came and went | |
| And we shed what was left of our summer skin | |
| On the night you left, I came over | |
| And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders | |
| Our brand new coats were so flushed and pink | |
| And I knew your heart I couldn't win | |
| Because the season's change was a conduit | |
| And we'd left our love in our summer skin |