The Cool-Off
The sun is playing hide and seek
In shadows on the wall
The clotheshorse sags with drying towels
We’re riding for a fall
But here in this solarium
The air is dead and soft
I guess I’ll hang around for school
And the cool-off
There is no autumn anymore
When summer days are gone
Thermometers are monuments
To yesterday gone wrong
And here in this solarium
I shout up to the loft
"I hope you saved your fuel
For the cool-off
The cool-off
Guess we’ll hibernate
For the cool-off”
One day it’s a swimming pool
Swim so you don’t sink
The next you are high diving
Down upon a skating rink
It got so weird with us
We couldn’t stand the heat
Everywhere a tinder box
The place where extremes meet
And here in this solarium
I think we’re going soft
We've retired but our real ceasefire's
The cool-off
We’re only warming up
For the cool-off.
It was just a year ago
When we all loved the sun
That shone till not a soul remained
For it to shine upon
And soon we’ll be alone again
Free to count the cost
Of every precious jewel we saved
For the cool-off
The cool-off
Every cruel jewel we saved
For the cool-off
Good song. Good to hear Wes sing.