Lala Lyric - August 27

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 27 Aug 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

littlehermit	27 Aug 2004
Sigh, I couldn't find any tricky ones, so you all will probably get this quickly. A song for the time of year (at least up in this hemisphere): End of the Summer 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.

anubis	27 Aug 2004
6 of cups... old memories

skh	27 Aug 2004
Death? (Or not that obvious?) Sonja

littlehermit	27 Aug 2004
No to both... but you'll probably guess it now!

blackroseivy	27 Aug 2004
4 of swords...?

littlehermit	27 Aug 2004
nope! :)

telcontar	27 Aug 2004
Wheel of Fortune?

Ellie	27 Aug 2004
Eight of Cups ~ Ellie

OakDragon	27 Aug 2004
5 of pentacles?

littlehermit	27 Aug 2004
Yes, telcontar, it's the Wheel. I'd also been thinking about Death and the World, but I think the Wheel of Fortune sums up the sense of time's inexorable passage and the inevitable changes in life that seem to accompany the seasons when you're a certain age.

anubis	28 Aug 2004
now thats interesting... :p

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