I Know Where The Summer Goes

Belle And Sebastian

I know where the summer goes


When you're having no fun


When you're under the thumb


I know where the summer dwells


If your underarm smells


And your kitchen looks like hell





I know where the summer goes


If you're scraping a pot, and your head is hot


Put your head down, put your thumbs up girl


With the smell of hot desk


And the glitter of your step


He was right, he's the upcoming guru of the city


No one told the city councillors





I know, you can tell me again


I've got my mobile phone


Full of silicon chips


No one likes a smart arse


But I've seen a pattern emerge


I will race you up the hill


Where the boy who made records out of postcard messages


And flowering cherries rain on kids like you





Look twice at the kid with the crimped


And overheated hair


They ran a book on his looks


Odds on was the noble pose and


The denim hard riff of the Irish Troubadour


But the boy came from nowhere to


Steal the hearts of lassies in the lavvies of the club tonight