Summer, it was my favorite thing And playing outside was my job I'd run down at the sound of the doorbell's ring And me and my friends would take off And I'd run through the street In my bare feet In spite of what I was told And I got stung by every damn bee in town By the time I was ten years old And I'd bring home every stray dog I found And my dad would say take it back All I wanted was something to call my own All I wanted was love like that Well, I have to admit that I hated school And I'd hopelessly dread every fall You get scared so you carefully follow the rules You get bored so you write on the wall And you bust up your soul to fit into some mold To be everything for everyone But you get by and sometimes I smile today When I think of how far I've come My father was sturdy and logical My mom was afraid of her heart Importance was placed on the sensible So we all grew up safe and smart But I never was much for the intellect It just puts a heart to the test It's a trick of the mind how often we find Our feelings so hard to accept Somedays I see how hard I can try Somedays how fast I can run And there are days where I may over-analyze Where all this frantic came from But I'd marry the fool who says break all the rules Who says Go girl don't you look back I'm beginning to see that I'll always be Looking for love like that