Steely Dan Database
They were the best days of the summer They will distract us no more Spend what's in leftover pieces Across the garage floor Girl it's a sad situation Tell me, what can it be? What's happ'nin' all over Ann Street Is happ'ning all over me We frolic with reckless, free abandon It's got to be the rising line Even as the season's ending We're running low on sweet borrowed time Those dead leaves piled up out by the mailbox Up against the first decent flow We wondered what would it feel like Just diving in that pool All of sudden there's a tear in your eye The end of an era soon is kissed goodbye Our lawn is dying, we're watching it die Well, when the sun starts looking lazy Down at a quarter to five The girls are talking and laughing Up at the top of the drive We cannot work in a dungeon But about what we're gonna do Who's gonna save the petunias Now that we've forgotten to A little taste, a little light conversation Isn't that the way it always was As a lousy zero-sum equation Or a lesson in some long-lost losing cause Greep is hungry, I can't read him Tell him that I already gave Tell him it's the midnight hour Dancing by the side of the grave The Rogers are crumbling now and it's starting to show Right now Eve'll notice as it's going that slow Our lawn is dying, in case you don't know [Solo] Let's throw a party in this doleful occasion Show the bastards who you really are No itchy goomba dance sensation Just sending wishes to the wrong shooting star All the way from DC to daylight Illumination in the cold, gray dawn Pick up on the cellular ray phone In case you got to call someone There's no-one the blame now And there's nothing to do Let's just make the best of What's me and whats you Our lawn is dying, so, what else is new