What's the Meaning of This? (A Summer Song)

1 week ago by @freshspotlessyouth

Liner Notes

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I saw this skirmish a while back. As it happens, I went camping by a little mountain river and actually saw a pair of sticks float by, crossed like an X. How perfect, I thought, X may mark the spot, but the spot is always in flux. The title is from a book I read along time ago about the meaning of indexical pronouns and such, words whose meaning is totally dependent on context, words like 'this'. I might come back to this. I actually wanted to respect the skirmish time limit, but I have some ideas :)

Lyrics

What’s the point of this song
What does it mean to sing 'this' in a song
When it’s gone
What’s the point of this song?
What does it mean?
Who’s asking?
Why are we here at this point?

I wrote a summer song, a summer song
But summer’s gone
This is a summer song, a summer song
But summer’s gone

I stepped into some riffles
I saw a pair of sticks
Floating down the river
I guess that was it
X marked the spot
That summer was hot
But summer’s gone
X marked the spot
That summer was hot
But summer’s gone

What’s the point of this song
What does it mean to sing this in a song
When it’s gone
What’s the point of this song?
What does it mean?
Who’s asking?
Why are we here at this point?

You’ll be here tomorrow
Where that pair of sticks
Floated down this river
I guess this is it
I wrote a summer song, a summer song
But summer’s gone
This is a summer song, a summer song
But summer’s gone

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