Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer Lyrics
I never dreamed you'd leave in summer
I thought you would go then come back home
I thought the cold would leave by summer
But my quiet nights will be spent alone
[Verse 2]
You said there would be warm love in springtime
That is when you started to be cold
I never dreamed you'd leave in summer
But now I find myself all alone
[Verse 3]
You said then you'd be the life in autumn
Said you'd be the one to see the way
No, I never dreamed you'd leave in summer
But now I find my love has gone away
Why didn't you stay?
About
No songwriter can write a more poetic love song than Stevie Wonder. However, in “Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer,” Stevie uses his composition skills to pen a beautifully heartbreaking song of lost love.
Wonder uses the changing of the seasons as a metaphor for the growth and eventual erosion of a relationship. Just as the warmer months of spring and summer are joyful, so is a budding relationship. Therefore, it comes as a great shock to the speaker that his love ended so soon. He feels dumbfounded, betrayed, and heartbroken.
The song has been used multiple times since its debut, including in a memorable montage with Janet Jackson in 1993’s Poetic Justice. And even more powerfully, Stevie chose to sing the song at Michael Jackson’s memorial service in 2009.
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