Oh, if the summer Leafy screens Of the undersides of bushes Took me in like time machines I'd crawl out Red-faced 2006 And set my mind to find you Inside the library bricks And with your date-stamper You'd brand my hand I'm the nervous camper Who would happily choke on the woodsmoke To lie next to you where you woke In the sand Oh, what a bummer Not to re-begin Not to have a sunburn Marrying the sum of our skin And in some very small rooms Where we'd sweat through the sheets I'd curse the hour that it all blooms And just pray to God it repeats M.A.C. and Elizabeth Sweating through the Sheets with A memory and a myth The balcony of Meredith's Apartment Blinded my eye sockets to the Sight of Marian The youngest memories burst Like a sun In the hot black night I Found my contrarian If any girl is cursed She's the one And I am the curse I am the worst Oh, if the summer Lake and pool Cease to make my body Feel so young and cool For I've been burned so badly In the worst way By squandering so sadly By being cruel In that way