**That Summer by Garth Brooks** (1993)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- ABOUT THE SONG:
"That Summer" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in April 1993 as the fourth and final single from his album The Chase and also appears on The Hits, The Ultimate Hits, The Limited Series and Double Live. It reached number-one on the Billboard Country Charts in 1993. The song was written by Brooks, Pat Alger, and Brooks' then-wife Sandy Mahl.
On the 1996 television special, The Garth Brooks Story, Garth talks about writing the song:
"That Summer started out as a single guy and a married woman meeting at a party. The married woman being ignored by whom she was with, and they snuck off together. Allen Reynolds told me, "Man, I just don't find myself pulling for these characters. It doesn't seem innocently cool." I was thinking that he was right. Going home that night in the truck I started singing she has a need to feel the thunder. Sandy started helping me write the chorus and we got the chorus done. Probably one of the neat things that I love about That Summer is that I think the song is very sexy."
The song is about a teenage boy "far from home" who goes to work for a "lonely widowed woman hellbent to make it on her own". The woman apparently lives on a wheat farm ("wheat fields as far as I could see").
The apparently much older woman slowly takes a liking to the young boy, to the point where one night she dons a dress "she hadn't worn in quite a while"; it is then implied by the rest of the second verse that the teenage boy loses his virginity by having sex with the more than willing older woman.
The third verse takes the now-adult man back to the scene of his coming of age, having not seen the woman (who has presumably died by then) since long ago. Although the man has been with several other women by this point, he still experiences flashbacks to his experience with the older woman.
"That Summer" debuted at number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 8, 1993.
LYRICS:
I went to work for her that summer
A teenage kid so far from home
She was a lonely widow woman
Hell-bent to make it on her own
We were a thousand miles from nowhere
Wheat fields as far as I could see
Both needing something from each other
Not knowing yet what that might be
'Til she came to me one evening
Hot cup of coffee and a smile
In a dress that I was certain
She hadn't worn in quite a while
There was a difference in her laughter
There was a softness in her eyes
And on the air there was a hunger
Even a boy could recognize
She had a need to feel the thunder
To chase the lightning from the sky
To watch a storm with all its wonder
Raging in her lover's eyes
She had to ride the heat of passion
Like a comet burning bright
Rushing headlong in the wind
Out where only dreams have been
Burning both ends of the night
That summer wind was all around me
Nothing between us but the night
When I told her that I'd never
She softly whispered that's alright
And then I watched her hands of leather
Turn to velvet in a touch
There's never been another summer
When I have ever learned so much
We had a need to feel the thunder
To chase the lightning from the sky
To watch a storm with all its wonder
Raging in each others eyes
We had to ride the heat of passion
Like a comet burning bright
Rushing headlong in the wind
Out where only dreams have been
Burning both ends of the night
I often think about that summer
The sweat, the moonlight and the lace
And I have rarely held another
When I haven't seen her face
And every time I pass a wheat field
And watch it dancing with the wind
Although I know it isn't real
I just can't help but feel
Her hungry arms again
She had a need to feel the thunder
To chase the lightning from the sky
To watch a storm with all its wonder
Raging in her lover's eyes
She had to ride the heat of passion
Like a comet burning bright
Rushing headlong in the wind
Out where only dreams have been
Burning both ends of the night
Rushing in long in the wind
Out where only dreams have been
Burnin' both ends of the night
Omg!!! It's actually him singing it!!! Makes me smile so hard... Am I the only person that can't ever find a Garth song that's not a cover???
This youtuber saved us
Yeah, he does his best to make sure everyone pays to hear any of his music.
Garth Brooks is nonexistent on the internet
Yeah I hate the wanna-be garths
Amazon music has all the album he signed a deal with them
This is a banger of a song, but the lyrics are sketchy lol
Right?!?! Sounds like pedophilia to me. An older woman and a teenage boy? Pretty gross.
This will always be my favorite. “And then I watched her hands of leather turn to velvet in a touch.” Amazing. Ozark made me think of this song haha.
Who is here because of the Diddy stuff?
Me for sure! The lyrics…people don’t listen well enough. It’s pedophilia! An older woman and a teenage boy?!?! Sheesh.
Me!!
My first response: JFC
My second: moi
hahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha ahha hahhahahhaha LOL
Me
Nothin wrong with learning from an older lady thats got something to teach
One of his best songs ❤
Imagine if this was the other way around……He’d be in jail just for writing it lol
Truth that’s what’s sad
Greener than the grass by David Allan Coe is the reverse
True😂😂😂😂
You never forget your first experience.
I love this song, but just now realized she was a widow with leathery hands 🫠
They turned to velvet in a touch
STOP NOW. The man is over 60. I am close to that age. When we were in our teens, it was *commonplace* to date other young people up to ten years older--or younger--than we. This shit is ridiculous. Diddy is an anomaly, albeit an influential and very wealthy one. He could pay others to go along with his shit, and punish them if they didn't. See Jaguar Wright, whose vocal career should have gotten her a Grammy but who is reduced to ranting on UA-cam about Diddy
Ahh.. the anthem of pedos everywhere.
One of my favorite Garth songs
Discusting
My deceased husband loved Garth and really loved this song.
I was 13 drinking beer in the barn with my two older cousins just returning from boot camp one in the army one in the Marines they both had cowboy boots and Garth Brooks style shirts..Still do😂😂😂 my uncle Coom thought and still thinks he sounds just like Garth Brooks and when I return home 1500 mi away I'm guaranteed to hear the song at least 1/2 dozen times😂😂😂 good stuff great memories
Dqvid burkett the most important ❤😊
Hahah ❤ I gotta laugh ! I absolutely love your comment, this is my number 1 favourite song! It will never get old ! Ever ❤😊
Pooh bears uncle 😅
Man I thought this story was going in a whole other direction.
@@TomFromUA-camlmao me too. I thought he was going to say he banged his cousin as being his first love.
They do say incest is best ???? lol….
He played that summer croke park Dublin Ireland. 2022.. l🔥💜legend of a man..
I remember this song from "that summer" of 1993. I recall hearing it a lot in the car on the long driving trips we took in Texas that year with my family (I was 13 then). I thought it was a good song, but a little slower and in a minor key than many of Garth's songs from that time. Since this was the last single from "The Chase," I know everyone was eagerly anticipating the new album (which would be called "In Pieces") that he'd release later in 1993.
This song keeps it high and tight. Masterpiece.
I was 18, she was 48... I learned so much those few weeks
Fcxxm😢cd
It never gives her age at all.
He was legal. So what?
@@juliadixon8465 was he tho?
Grate song about a statutory rape
Pretty much. Isn't it weird how accepted it was back then. My dad's even said if anyone cared back then half of the town would've been arrested. I'm happy it's finally being brought to attention.
But yeah awesome song lol
I mean the lyrics say " Teenage kids too far from home" they could both be 18 🤷♂️
Get over it 😡 how old was the 18 y/o man !!!!!
@@deliacastillo8741 we don't know he was 18 it never specifies. Even Garth has said the lyrics are weird
Bah. Modern folks are pussies. So at 17 years, 364 days I was a child but the next day I could go die for my country? But not buy a cigarette? Bullshit.
Wonderful classic country song.
I can recall a summer I worked along side my crush. We saw each other every day for two months. He was doing a summer job in the same building. ❤❤❤
Sweet memories
Not gonna lie, I was shocked this is the real song
The cougar song!
Where are they Garth
❤❤❤ this song.
I wonder why hes not on spotify
He doesn’t want his music streamed so people can get the full effect of his music. It’s not on Apple Music either 😭
This is one of my favorite country songs
David burkett has been in the most popular and exciting times ❤😊
ever headed east and seen five hundred dead bucks dead on the highway and not hit one in the middle of the night doing one thirty thats hot hot i made it 1600hundred miles in 11.5five hundred miles the long way home
This is my favorite song in this album. I love too "No Fences".
Love it ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great story she broke him in good and broke his heart along the way.
Stacys mom was worse lol
Try “War is Hell on the Homefront Too” by TG Sheppard from the early 80s! Similar theme, except the husband was off in WW2!
What a good song Garth.
Thanks for adding.
Me Diddy did do it
You know
Good song but not exactly the best story
Great song
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Favorite Garth Brooks song!’nn🎉