[Verse 1]
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
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

[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
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
When 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

[Verse 4]
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 wanna 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