An End Of Summer Playlist

Another summer is closing up, I’ve been thinking of the songs that make me think of summer.

Personally, I love summer as much I complain about it’s heatwaves. I don’t regret any of the summers I’ve had wether they were bad or good. Every summer I create a playlist, some of these are the songs I’ve listened to all my life and some are new additions I picked up from my other summers.

For the end of the summer, I wanted to share the songs that have been with me on my summers and I hope they’ll be apart of your summers too.

Summer Love by Trevor Something

This is the song that I’ve coined as “Jim Morrison vibes.” This song plays out like how Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson fell in love on the beach on summer night. Love is one of the hugest highs that we can get, and the song encapsulates what it’s like to forget the world enjoy being with someone for the moment. They might not be the forever partner. You might not never see them again, but they were a Summer Love.

Boys Of Summer by Don Henley

I have to go with a song that is both a personal song and a classic song. My mother introduced me to this song years ago, and it’s still feels like I’m listening it for the first time. This was my introduction to Don Henley It’s one that I enjoy in the summer and any other season. The story of a wanting a love back like it was in the summer. Nick Carraway from The Great Gatsby says ”you can’t repeat the past” and this song poves otherwise. There’s a hope given within this summer story to not give up on what you want if you don‘t give up on yourself. The song has a good morale to show what you can do when you put your mind to it. Don Henley paints the picture of summer and the way he describes his love interest blazed in the season is downright poetic. Any song that makes you fall in love just like the way he describes it is doing something right.

Heart & Feather by Twin Tribes

This is a stretch but hear me out. I can see it working if you squint at these lyrics.

This curse we have we cannot hide

The hourglass defines you

White sands connect us, you and I

Forever intertwined

I could see that feeling in the vibe for summer. It’s a song on the dark side, but nonetheless, it does offer as a pallet cleanser to have a song that encapsulates a moment you want to last forever.

Hot In The City by Billy Idol

This is another 80s song that feels tailor–made summer song without being known as a summer song. Everything about the song feels like the joy of a summer night. Passing beautiful strangers that you may never see again. Enjoyiying the spontaneity of a summer love. Just like Boys of Summer it has a message to go out and enjoy life. To go make the most of life while you have it. One of the lyrics that sticks out as a major message is “Don’t Forget Your Young”. Life is filled with highs and lows, most of us experience it every day. But he says to make the most of the experience.

Purple Sun By Cannons

Purple sun just felt like the right way to end this playlist. This song is like the perfect nostalgic generator for the ending of summer without feeling sad about it. When the sunsets on the last day of summer fills at the end of a chapter, and this is one of the songs that resonates with me when I think of the ending of summer. I first heard the song when me and my best friend came back from our first group vacation. Purple Sun played at the right time to be the bookend to a vacation with the sun’s colors changing as we drove back to our normal lives.

The end of my summer day is knowing that it was all good. It’s a good way to feel about the end of summer. I hope these songs will apart of your summer like have been in mine.