Summer Samba by Liz23

summer samba
music & lyrics by michael cohen & liz sumner

shorter grow the dreary days of deep december
i think of places far away and i surrender
i’m swept up by the magic in the song
i hear that summer samba and i’m warm all winter long

you think my goals are out of reach, me a dreamer
i close my eyes, i’m on the beach at ipanema
i feel the sun burn off those clouds of grey
i hear that summer samba and i’m half a world away

i don’t understand just how the spell is cast
to make it move me,
the samba
is it in the tempo or the melody they play
samba
somewhere in a previous existence
i became unable to resist
since then the rhythm’s been beating in my heart

i’ll be shaking off this moss sooner or later
and take a little trip across the equator
it’s gravity that keeps me in my chair
i hear that summer samba and one day i will be there
summer samba