The Other Side of Summer

About The Other Side of Summer

"The Other Side of Summer" is a single from Elvis Costello's 1991 album Mighty Like A Rose, written by Costello. The song was co-produced by Costello, Mitchell Froom and Kevin Killen. A Beach Boys pastiche, the song featured a Wall of Sound production. The single reached number 43 in the UK Singles Chart and charted in Canada and Australia. It also reached number 1 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 40 on the Album Rock Tracks chart.

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2015

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The sun struggles up another beautiful day 
And I felt glad in my own suspicious way 
Despite the contradiction and confusion 
Felt tragic without reason 
There's malice and there's magic in every season
 
From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf 
The other side of summer 
To the burning forests in the hills of Astroturf 
The other side of summer 

The automatic gates close up between the shanties and the palace 
The blowtorch amusements, the voodoo chalice 
The pale pathetic promises that everybody swallows 
A teenage girl is crying 'cause she don't look like a million dollars 
So help her if you can 
'Cause she don't seem to have the attention span 

From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf 
The other side of summer 
To the burning forests in the hills of Astroturf 
The other side of summer 

Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions"? 
A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons"? 
The rabid rebel dogs ransack the shampoo shop 
The pop princess is downtown shooting up 
And if that goddess if fit for burning 
The sun will struggle up the world will still keep turning 

Madman standing by the side of the road saying 
"Look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes" 
Now you can't afford to fake all the drugs your parents used to take 
Because of their mistakes you'd better be wide awake 

From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf 
The other side of summer 
To the burning forests in the hills of Astroturf 
The other side of summer 

The mightiest rose 
The absence of perfume 
The casual killers 
The military curfew 
The cardboard city 
An unwanted birthday 
The other side of summer 

The dancing was desperate, the music was worse 
They bury your dreams and dig up the worthless 
Goodnight 
God bless 
And kiss "goodbye" to the earth 
The other side of summer

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Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk/New Wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image". more »

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