Music

Green Summer Lawn   Run Time: 4:02

Written by Bill Mallonee for CyBrenJoJosh (BMI) ©2001

please make me young at least for the moment
there's magic in your hands i just wanna know its name
do you wanna see the clouds in your sky
and turn your flowers into lies
that's so wrong for your green summer lawn

down for the third time we're so scared to death
how good are you how good at holding your breath
and this lurid scene it's all unadorned
better leave the celluloid on the cutting room floor
and be gone to your green summer lawn

there's a wind behind the stars
there's a voice that says
you are more than you think you are

why am i so cold so cold before my time
said babe can you rephrase there's no poetry in that line
if you don't know the score you don't know when you lose
and this stuff that you buy in place of the truth
won't stay strong let your worries be gone
put your dancing shoes on for your green summer lawn

Did You Know?

A song about happiness—the things in life that make us happy are not the things in life that that we strive for in our pursuit of happiness. In 1997, Bill said, "I like mowing the lawn... I feel there must be some strong connection between the two... is it that pungent smell of fresh cut grass that drives me wild with childhood memories? Is it the mind-numbing buzz and gentle jarring from the mower that counterfeits an eastern religious experience... a fescue nirvana, if you will...? Or is it that green is the color of money we don't and probably never will have? I wonder if, in fact, that the insatiable desire to cut down to size the very elements, harness nature to do our bidding and thus exercise dominiom over the entire backyard isn't really just... rock and roll?" Reportedly, bassist Jake Bradley does an entertaining "Kermit the Frog" version of this song.

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