Story Behind The Song

Comparing summers. Wistfully musing on the warm and breezy summer of 1984. Where did it all go wrong?

Song Description

A stark acoustic production which highlights the desperate loneliness from a love lost.

Lyrics

Monarchs

Trapped in a prison of my own device
Hot sweaty summer keeps me cold as ice
Everything I do is reaching lost dead ends
And everyone I meet turns into a lost friend

But last year was different ... I had you
We floated on the summer breeze like monarchs do
The mood was right , my hopes were so high,
Something big was coming but it must have passed me by,
Passed me by

Trapped in a prison of my own device
Now that warm blurry feeling seeps into my eyes
It's so hard to change the course I'm running now
Summer is for living I've forgotten how

But last year was different baby ... I had you
Oh and the time we spent together was so real and true
The hills were so green, the sun was so bright,
How was it I lost your love it seems like over night,
Over night

Cold and lonely, hot summer nights
Uncomfortable bed, solo flights
My prospects cold, my body in heat
I dream of nights when love was sweet

But last year was different baby ... I had you
We almost let ourselves believe in, in one for two
Your house was my home, you lived in my heart,
So suddenly the picture was completely torn apart

Last year was different baby,
You know that I had you
We floated on the summer breeze like monarchs do
We floated on the warm summer breeze like monarchs do ...