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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Summer Skin (page 2/ 4) ------ performed by Death Cab For Cutie Love and Change | Reviewer: Lucy | 6/4/08 This song is really cool. I'm trying to learn the gutar tabs. i love it!i i think this song is about two people in a relationship in summer that are in love and having loads of fun in summer. i think "Summer Skin" is a metaphore of them being like a different person in summer and being happier. "Labour day came and went" well labour day is the 1st of may and the start of spring. i reacon this means that the end of summer has come and gone and they're starting to feel differently about each other and starting to drift apart abit because maybe they cant spend as much time together because summer vacation is over and all. they are starting to feel the cold (not literally lol) i think in the end they have a fight ("on the night you left i came over and we peeled the freckles from our shoulders") "and i knew your heart i couldn't win" i think he has decided that he can't win her over and she's leaving. they can't be together anymore. then they shed what was left of they're summer skin- all the happy feelings and times together. thats what i think anyways! lol love is so complicated | Reviewer: anynmous | 4/9/08 i think this song is just about two people who met and the summer brought them close. they fell in love and really cared for one another. he loves her and he couldnt win her heart. but she was always there. time goes on and there love faded cuz they didnt see each other. and the winter brought sadness and a hard cold end to there relationship... wether they choose for it to end or nott and they had to go through the tough year as there summer love had to end. but some feelings are still left there. as they got to know each other to there " raw self ". its a song about love. and how the seasons mean differnt stuff. and relationships between to people. love and relationships | Reviewer: fictional finalism | 12/6/07 this song is truly beautiful. and i agree with what everyone has said. i just want to add that i think the changing of the seasons are metaphors for the changes in a relationship. when you first meet someone, you have a rush of excitement and everything is fun. you're carefree, just like in the summer. but as the relationship deepens and time passes, you shed your skin and reveal who you really are, hence "our brand new coats so flushed and pink." they were exposing their "raw" self. in his case, when they revealed who they really were, he knew it wouldn't work out. just like the winter, the relationship got cold and it ended. i also like the imagery of innocence and just...childhood in the song. when we go into a relationship, we are in a sense like a child. we're innocent and new to everything. we believe the relationship, or love, will last. summer skin is realistic | Reviewer: cait | 11/26/07 I absolutely relate to this song. I had a "Summer Skin" summmer this year. I have to say, summer love really does fade fast. Once the leaves start falling. We both realized something about eachother. We haven't talked since. I love this song. Summer Skin | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/9/07 I don't think it is just about a fling, although i think someone the speaker was "In love" with is important in the interpretation. I think he grew up, perhaps realised that the girl (or guy, i suppose) he had spent the summer with wasn't really love, now he knows he'ss just been wasting his time, that it was just a way to pass the days and now he's back to reality, looking for something more real? Summer Skin | Reviewer: Will | 10/19/07 Great song, I think all of the above reviews are quite accurate. and really, isn't that the beauty of music? we can all interpret this in a different way than perhaps even the artist intended it to. The songs message for me, is to cherish the moments you have now. weather it be love, youth, or just being content. because seasons change, years go by and life moves faster and faster every day. I also realize how this song can especially be associated with a summer love, or fling. passion, excitement, humid weather. Almost reminds you of being at a cottage with your buddies and you meet someone there who you fall for. Or endless weekends of party's and sun. and than one day, its gone. you go back to school, the girl moves away, your hearts broken, and winter is just beginning. a lot of meaning in this song, and its illustrated perfectly anything | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/21/07 "There is nothing specific about college in this song... i think it can be about any summer fling that you are sad to see end. Sometimes things just get more complicated once school starts again and the care free atmosphere or summer leaves." from anonymous^ i think they are completely right. i think there could be many meanings behind this song even beyond what the initial meaning may have been. also anonymous is completely right. i was in the most amazing relationship for the entire summer and after being in school for a little it had ended. this songs beautiful.. hmm... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/5/07 I think this song does have way more meaning than what is just posted in the lyrics. Most likely there is a connection to phases of life or something of the sort and the season change. Summer is what I consider the season of "fun" and "excitment" and I believe the writer was going through a phase of his life that was close to what summer describes. & now that the phase is over he "sheds" everything to do with it and starts all over. This could be about love, but then again it could be about anything. I think it's a very deep song that none of us with understand except the writer. great song of nostalgia | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/21/07 This song doesn't reference any particular cause for leaving (college, etc.). The speaker is simply lamenting a summer of fun with another person, a person whom the speaker loves and wants to spend more time with. Although it isn't clear, it seems like the speaker wants a romantic relationship with this other person. But "summer" can be a metaphor for the season of personal growth. This could mean that the speaker is undergoing a personal "summer," where all is bright, fun, and not recalling "a single care". Now that it is ending, and this other person is leaving, the speaker is experiencing a autumn, or diminishing or dying growth. The speaker is nostalgic for what was and can only look forward to the fall without this person, without a heart he or she "couldn't win." This last analysis is emphasized by the minor mode the song is written in, and the march beat the drums play emphasizes the marching through life that every one of us must endure whether we like it or not. The song is a slower march tempo. This is both consistent with how our lives move and inconsistent with how our lives SEEM to be in certain moments, when time stands still or seems to fly by too quickly. This last point might be reflected in the piano's very slow lines and vamping chords of the piano and guitar. College | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/11/07 There is nothing specific about college in this song... i think it can be about any summer fling that you are sad to see end. Sometimes things just get more complicated once school starts again and the care free atmosphere or summer leaves. I will be sad to see my summer fling end but it seems inevitable, even though we both go to the same college and met there this summer... things will just be too complicated and neither of us will be able to deal with it all in a few weeks. I think this is all very common, hence the song about it. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4