The winter doesn't want you, it haunts you Summer serenading's a long way from this frozen place, your face Our teacher, our preacher, it's nature And like flowers growing in a bomb crater From nothing, a rose, it grows I've been thinking about the west coast Not the one that everyone knows We're sick of living in the shadows We've one more chance before the light goes For a summer of love A summer of love Freezing, we're leaving, believing That all we need's a head up for somewhere In a summer to come, so we run I've been thinking about the west coast Not the one that everyone knows We're sick of living in the shadows We've one more chance before the light goes For a summer of love A summer of love Oh, and when all is lost, when all is lost We find out what remains Oh, the same oceans crest For some it's pleasure, for some it's pain I've been thinking about the west coast Not the one that everyone knows In the rubble of a lamp post Flowers blooming in the shadows For a summer of love A summer of love