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Summer Oil

from Winston by Eric Peter Schwartz

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Words and music by E.P. Schwartz

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She was called Helen of Troy
by Charlie the summer casual college boy
her skin was ruddy olive green
she rode the site with the Haz-Mat team

And oh how I’d watch her
as she rolled away half empty drums of polymer
and the way the sun fell on her gloves
didn’t get a single look but I was in love

Crazy Bernie worked the 200 Dock
he kept mail-order porn in a desk drawer he didn’t lock
cassette tapes scattered on the desk
you could tell by that room his mind was a mess

He wasn’t allowed on half the site
he thought she liked him, he wasn’t right
she cried foul when he tried to kiss her
we all held our breath and waited for disaster

Responsibilities were light
a toe in the water of real life
we were all young and stupid and probably spoiled
but we all smelled like summer oil

Mark had gone to MIT
till a cycle crash wiped him clean
you could hear it when he would talk
like the Phinneas Gage of the docks

He had no social skills
but he could move boxes, bags and bills
that’s why they kept him around
but behind his back they thought he was a clown

Responsibilities were light
a toe in the water of real life
we were all young and stupid and probably spoiled
but we all smelled like summer oil

When autumn came they were gone
I watched them go as I stayed on
I decided college wasn’t for me
I was nineteen going on forty

And now most of those buildings are gone
I drive past on the way to play my songs
But it still comes back to me
the light sweet crude on the breeze

Responsibilities were light
a toe in the water of real life
we were all young and stupid and probably spoiled
but we all smelled like summer oil

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from Winston, released March 12, 2020

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Eric Peter Schwartz Aurora, Illinois

Acoustic rock and some instrumental rock. Where heart and quirk collide.

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