Gainesville, Fla Lyrics - Singles - John Vanderslice

I was born in a summer storm 

Grass was cold but the sky was warm 

They lay me down in the mossy fields 

Where the crows kill with tender speed 

Sun burned off the lonely clouds 

And warmed my face, the roots in the ground 

They washed me off in a shallow stream 

Where sand dunes line the beach 

I grew up on that moody land 

I understood the tension all around 

Between me and you and dad 

How a sun burn goes cold and damp 

How we hovered all in between 

Slight sliver where life can begin 

Between oxygen and temperature 

Or the force fields of boy and girl 

I was born in a summer storm 

Grass was cold but the sky was warm 

And so I hover now in between 

The slight sliver where life can breathe 

Submariners crashed my sleep 

I heard about it on the BBC 

I can hear as they tap on the steel 

Of a hull downed in the melting sea