Garth Brooks Lyrics

Album: Double Live

That Summer Lyrics

I went to work for her that summer 

 A teenage kid so far from home 

 She was a lonely widow woman 

 Hell-bent to make it on her own 

 We were a thousand miles from nowhere 

 Wheat fields as far as I could see 

 Both needing something from each other 

 Not knowing yet what that might be 

 

 'Til she came to me one evening 

 Hot cup of coffee and a smile 

 In a dress that I was certain 

 She hadn't worn in quite a while 

 There was a difference in her laughter 

 There was a softness in her eyes 

 And on the air there was a hunger 

 Even a boy could recognize 

 

 She had a need to feel the thunder 

 To chase the lightning from the sky 

 To watch a storm with all its wonder 

 Written in her lover's eyes 

 She had to ride the heat of passion 

 Like a comet burning bright 

 Rushing headlong in the wind 

 Now where only dreams have been 

 Burning both ends of the night 

 

 That summer wind was all around me 

 Nothing between us but the night 

 When I told her that I'd never 

 She softly whispered that's alright 

 And then I watched her hands of leather 

 Turn to velvet in a touch 

 There's never been a summer 

 When I have ever learned so much 

 

 We had a need to feel the thunder 

 To chase the lightning from the sky 

 To watch a storm with all its wonder 

 Written in her lover's eyes 

 She had to ride the heat of passion 

 Like a comet burning bright 

 Rushing headlong in the wind 

 Now where only dreams have been 

 Burning both ends of the night 

 

 I often think about that summer 

 The sweat, the moonlight and the lace 

 And I have rarely held another 

 When I haven't seen her face 

 And every time I pass a wheat field 

 And watch it dancing with the wind 

 Although I know it isn't real 

 I just can't help but feel 

 Her hungry arms again 

 

 She had a need to feel the thunder 

 To chase the lightning from the sky 

 To watch a storm with all its wonder 

 Written in her lover's eyes 

 She had to ride the heat of passion 

 Like a comet burning bright 

 Rushing headlong in the wind 

 Now where only dreams have been 

 Burning both ends of the night 

 

 Rushing in long in the wind 

 Now where only dreams have been 

 Burnin' both ends of the night