"In the summer I was waiting   For the daughter of a drunk and a waitress   to recover, to get better   ‘Til the last day of the summer had blown over      The birds were singin’ a last goodbye   The only thing that could be heard   Except for the sob and dropping of tears   the loss of someone who’d really been gone for years      The sky was bluer than ever before   Our minds were bluer than ever before   Tax-free shoppers in the harbour   Far from all this misery, this misery yeah      Here they sit in the pouring sun   all day long, just wasting time   all day long, just waiting for a strangers eye and a strangers smile   and the trembling air full of laughter and eyes   Rolling ‘round in your head ‘til the day you drop dead   On your side on the livingroom floor   I took the bus loaded with stuff   And oceans of sweat pouring down on my back,   oceans of sweat pouring down on my back      In the summer I was waiting   For the daughter of a drunk and a waitress   to recover, to get better   ‘Til the last day of the summer had blown over   "