All your life you’ve put off growing up. Why would you want to start just because you’re out of high school?
Do what I did and Go To College. It’s the perfect way to delay the future. Stay In School. For as long as possible. Until they kick you out. Find a warm place to play in the summer time, along a beach, outside the Midwest, or even at a lake or pond.
I was a surf rat on the outer banks of North Carolina. OBX as it is branded now. I sat in a lifeguard chair all day and played on the beach…like a paid vacation. Why would an Ohioeen want to leave that?
So unfold a beach chair on the ground, in the mud or back of your truck - crank up some reliable Midwest Music and Flannel Rock your mind into a life long sabbatical.
Lyrics
Easily sidetracked in high school
Too many beach balls in the pool
Call it learning you’ll never lose
Summer flings never want to let it end.
Mixed with school like water and grease
Never missed a chance to jump in the leaves
Fly off the handle to swing from the trees
Summer flings never want to let it end
Eight years of college for 90 degrees
All caught up in that ocean breeze
See salty seas slapping up to your knees
Eight years of college for 90 degrees
Making waves don’t cost you a drop
Always gotta lock your tackle box
Not afraid to let your belly flop
Summer flings never want to let it end.
No one ran harder at work to get free
Years passed that shore’s calling me
Relive and make new memories
Summer flings never want to let it end
Eight years of college for 90 degrees
All caught up in that ocean breeze
See salty seas slapping up to your knees
Eight years of college for 90 degrees
8 yrs of college Salted some dreams
8 years of college Too fast it seems
8 Years of college Sun surf and me
8 years of college could’ve finished in three