Can't Remember Summer

                                  There's a factory standing empty

Where we built your Chevrolet

And we sent our kids to college

On a forty hour wage



But now the windows all are broken

There's graffiti on the walls

And the kids came home from college

And took a job down at the mall



And the winter is getting longer

And this town is frozen now

And I can't remember summer

It feels like spring may never come



There's a half full whiskey bottle

On the table by my bed

And there's a hollow in the pillow

Where she used to lay her head



And all the dreams and all the memories

Faded pictures and crooked frames

Hang in silence down the hallway

In the chill of what remains



Now the winter is getting colder

And my heart is frozen now

And I can't remember summer

It feels like spring may never come



Shades of hopeless on the faces

Of the souls who stand in light

And Holy Jesus hangs on crosses

And I hear Mother Mary crying



Halleluiah, halleluiah

Soon it all will disappear

Buried under the snows of winter

Just like we all were never here