Dan's Song

Me and my friend Dan are going to get some beers
And then we're going to go down to the park and drink them there
We'll bask out in the sun bring a guitar and play some songs
Call up our friends and invite them out
To share what might be the last weekend of the summer
Because September's getting colder as it goes
And we haven't done enough of this simple kind of stuff this year.

It's clear we're getting older and it shows
Work weeks make us weary now and school's a distant memory
And it's easy to ask questions of ourselves like:
Where it is we're going now and what we have to show for all the sunny days
Shut up in the shells of expectations of our ultimate directions
And the stations that we should have reached by now
When we haven't read the script and our tender wings are clipped
And we're scared we might be letting someone down.

So we listen to these heartbreak songs when nothing's really wrong
And we smile when we're asked and say we're fine
But we're drifting through our middle days
Creeping into middle age setting in our ways
But now it's time to decide
Now it's time to draw a line in the sand
And ask what's more important than days like today?
So grab some beers call your friends and meet us here
In the summer park with me and my friend Dan.