Best PJ song to close out the summer....

orig_long red

for those of you who are going back to school and are kinda bummed, I recommend Around the Bend.
When I was of school age and September would roll around, I'd put in ATB to make myself feel better.....summer is the sun thats around the bend.

Alive Again

Before I even clicked on this thread I was thinking it should be Around the Bend. It has a haunting, autumnal quality to it and makes you wonder about what the future might hold.

fun_and_sun

Summer has been weird so "Stupid Mop"

leatherman_8

Around the Bend, Lowlight, Parting Ways

Ms. Haiku

All of these years and I had the first line wrong . . . ai yai yai. I thought it was I am wishing you well. The first stanza doesn't seem very lullaby-ish, does it. I cast you off? You cast off a boat to explore? So, maybe casting off to explore the dream world? My brother once referenced his daughter's crib as her cell. It does look like a cell with those bars, eh, but what do you do with a well?

I am wishing you a well
Mind at peace within your cell
Covers up, I cast you off
I'll be watching as you breathe
I lie still, you move, I send
You,... off around the bend

I hold your head deep in my arms
My fingertips they close your eyes
Off you dream, my little child
There's a sun around the bend
There's a sun around the bend

All the evenings close like this
All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive me, won't you, dear?
Please forgive and let me share...
With... you... around the bend

You're an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep
On and on around the bend

Androgynous Mind

Ms. Haiku wrote:

All of these years and I had the first line wrong . . . ai yai yai. I thought it was I am wishing you well. The first stanza doesn't seem very lullaby-ish, does it. I cast you off? You cast off a boat to explore? So, maybe casting off to explore the dream world? My brother once referenced his daughter's crib as her cell.

I cast you off is saying to me that the father is letting go of his child into the solitude of slumber where the child can be at peace and dream of the joys of life.

Ms. Haiku wrote:

It does look like a cell with those bars, eh, but what do you do with a well?

A wishing well. The song talks about dreams and aspirations for a child.

I heard this song was by Irons about his child, but apparently it was written by Vedder. Any clarification about this would be greatly appreciated.