They tear down every year
Colored rides and sideshow games
Days have grown shorter and I know
The time of fun will finally end.
School books ready
Just not ready for shoes and slacks
Swimming time over as the sun sets soon
Padlock on gates
And back to the routine.
Longing to stay free
Riding from morning to night
Sleep overs and escape to friends,
Feeling those prison gates close
Sitting below tight wooden desks,
Pencils poised and the clock that never ends
To bring release.
Languid hot days we lie out on lawns
As the last firework fades
And the lightning bugs fly away
August was a heavy month
In my tired memory.
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt for today was pick a month you found as cruel….I remember always being melancholy as the county fair wound down to a close….time to return to the drudgery of school…..now that was cruel……
August was a heavy month lyrics
I’ll take another photograph
Before the old one fades
It reminds me of those things that past
And quickly passed away
But it comes on in the early night
Creeping up on you
Those scenes of devastation
Crushing down on cue
These days are growing colder now
The light is growing dim
August was a heavy month
And now the nights are drawing in
Poor Baby Blue’s wrapped up again
Inside her final pain
I’d help her if I could I say
She puts us all to shame
Alright, alright I know I’ve got a lot
Left to answer for
But am I the only one to blame
And anyway who’s keeping score
But the grass seems so much brighter now
She’s spilled her blood again
August was a heavy month
Wash it down September rain
Baby Blue picks up her life tonight
And rushes for the Chelsea train
All the stars shine down on her tonight
And August was a heavy month
The photograph is cracked and torn
From being picked up, put down
Like some holy relic
Whose worshippers are found
Searching through their sacred books
For the holy grail of “why”
But the total sum of knowledge
Knows no more than you or I
Alright, alright says Baby Blue
Who doesn’t really understand
August was a heavy month
But winter came at last.
*written by Bob Geldof
*taken from the album “Deep In the Heart of Knowhere”
