Jerry Rumspringer - Hostage Calm

I want to know where all the summers go

Do they pack up and move when you turn twenty-three?

Do they disconnect from the years they protected you

From youth’s reckless speed?

Around the bend, they drew an end…

Fending off the end (Start it all again)

Fending off the end (Start it all again)

Fending off the end (Start it all again)

I think I know where still the flowers grow

They’re under the van we bought when I turned seventeen:

A reminder of what can wilt and take longer yet to fade away

A game hard to play

But harder yet to walk away:

Fending off the end (Start it all again)

Fending off the end (Start it all again)

Fending off the end (Start it all again)

If, to support yourself, you had to turn your back

On the only support you ever had

That’s the cost of feeling safe

I don’t know if I’ll want to a play a show

At the close of those forty-hour weeks

And if that’s the cost of feeling safe

Then let this be our leap of faith:

Every kid in Wallingford is trying to borrow

Lead shoes to make their way down to the bottom

Of the Quinnipiac to fend off

The hurtful end of adolescence

Until then, we tread