Summer Water

Sometimes that lake got angry

As the lightnin' went and crashed

Sometimes it was so still

It looked like a sheet of glass

But it washed away our beer cans,

And it washed away our sins

It talked us out of all our clothes

And begged us to jump in

There was magic in the summer water

Learned to swim in the summer water

All the small town sons and daughters

Were baptized a thousand times

Built fire by it like an altar

Gave it every song we could offer

Memories float on it like a bobber

Out there on the summer water

♪

When a heart was broken

It was better than a church pew sanctuary

A lot of long kiss, rocks skip

Sun drenched orange crush bottle caps got buried

It's where you spend your first night with

Your first love before the mercury starts falling

It's where you spend the last with your first love

Before somebody goes to college

There was magic in the summer water

Learned to swim in the summer water

All the small town sons and daughters

Were baptized a thousand times

Built fire by it like an altar

Gave it every song we could offer

Memories float on it like a bobber

Out there on the summer water

♪

There was something 'bout the summer water

Every girl that's where you brought her

It's where you slipped that ring you bought her

On her shakin' hand

Built fire by it like an altar

Gave it every song we could offer

Memories float on it like a bobber

Out there on the summer water

Yeah out on the summer water