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When Summer Comes

by Field School

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1.
honeymoons in june september and falling leaves cold decembers daffodils every spring but loving me was never gonna work out ice cream summers swimming and cannonballs april showers apple trees in the fall but loving me was never gonna work out
2.
jennifer valentine, i wrote your name a thousand times i wonder if you remember mine jennifer valentine, i'll never change my mind cross my heart and hope to die all i wanted was you jennifer valentine, your name should be up in lights above the city burning bright jennifer valentine, lips ripened on the vine sugar sweet and glossy shined all i wanted was you jennifer valentine, electromagnets realign whenever you go walking by jennifer valentine, i wrote your name a thousand times i wonder if you remember mine
3.
i'm head over heels in love with you, honey i just want you to light my fire i just want to be there when you wake up i just want it to be me in your eyes and i just want to paint you in pictures and tell you about everything that happened today and every day for the rest of my life i'm over the moon in love with you, baby i just want you to love me two times i just want to have all your attention i just want it to be me in your eyes and i just want to paint you in pictures and tell you about everything that happened today and every day for the rest of my life
4.
Wide Awake 02:37
i've been thinking about love all i know is it's something i've been dreaming of i protect my heart so that it doesn't break but i'm all alone lying here wide awake i've been thinking about life all i know is it's something that i can't get right i try so hard every single day but i'm all alone lying here wide awake i didn't want to talk about it anyway i'm wide awake
5.
i can't remember most of december, and i don't recall january at all there was something i meant to, but i didn't get to i'm not really sure if it matters at all but i'm starting to feel a bit like myself again whatever it means to feel like myself again i'm starting to feel that way it seems like a long time since we drank enough wine it feels like forever since i saw you at all i can't remember most of september i'm not really sure if it happened at all but i'm starting to feel a bit like myself again whatever it means to feel like myself again i'm starting to feel that way
6.
when summer comes, don't knock upon my door because we're not seventeen anymore when summer comes, don't look around for me because we're no longer twenty-three summers come and go like fair-weather friends but i still want to feel that sting again it was gone without a warning it was just there sunday morning but we're never going to be seventeen again when summer comes, don't call me on the phone because we were twenty-five so long ago when summer comes, i could use a friend but we haven't spoken since i can't remember when summers come and go like fair-weather friends but i still want to feel that sting again it was gone without a warning it was just there sunday morning but we're never going to be seventeen again
7.
don't hesitate, it's a beautiful sunday the hours slip away while you're smiling for the camera your heart is awake and the music is playing it's not too late, don't let this moment pass you by manic on monday, panic on tuesday i wonder if wednesday is ever going to end hurry up thursday, happy on friday a saturday wasted at the laundromat again so don't hesitate, it's a beautiful sunday the hours slip away while you're smiling for the camera your heart is awake and the music is playing it's not too late, don't let this moment pass you by it's a beautiful sunday don't let this moment pass you by
8.
Moon Jellies 02:47
and the sky was a fire of purples, pinks, and reds as the moon and stars conspired to put the sun to bed but i'm still amazed by you moon jellies pulse gently in and out of sync warm breezes stir patterns in phosphorescent ink but i'm still amazed by you
9.
tell me what we're supposed to do now it seems like we lost our way somehow it wasn't supposed to be like this it wasn't supposed to be like this now everything is upside-down and i don't know how to turn it around it wasn't supposed to be like this it wasn't supposed to be like this so what do we do now? where do we go now? is this our love song?
10.
i would bring you flowers every day till you grow old if i thought it would make a difference if you stay or go when you leave in the morning don't leave the light on when you leave in the morning i'll already be gone i would sing you love songs until your heart explodes if i thought that it would change your mind but i know it won't when you leave in the morning don't leave the light on when you leave in the morning i'll already be gone
11.
remember when you used to make my heart sing? la-da-di-da-da-da-di-da-di now it would take an ox to pull my heartstrings does anybody know how to use these things? oh angela, was it really worth the price it cost? something in the tug of your voice makes me suspicious remember when you used to bring me coffee? i didn't want to tell you that i drink tea now it would take a wrench to turn my heart's key i was never good at fixing things oh angela, was it really worth the price it cost? something in the tug of your voice makes me suspicious if you see me around just turn away and act like you didn't if you see me around just act like you didn't
12.
they came to carry you away there was nothing i could do there was nothing i could say to make it different they came to bury you today but when you come back you will be light

about

Field School is the new solo project of Charles Bert, who made his mark in Math and Physics Club, the Seattle indie pop combo that set the bar for sugar rush melodies and chiming guitar perfection. Field School’s debut LP When Summer Comes is a self-made tableau of vivid guitars, eclair-rich vocals, and proactive wondering. It is a treasury of reflections on happiness and loss, and how, like seasons, they pass and return.

Field School began as an experiment. As the pandemic pushed us into social isolation, Charles realized that writing and recording with bandmates was off the table. But instead of burrowing away to wait it out, he seized the moment: writing, arranging and recording songs on which he played every instrument, learning on the fly. His ingenuity was contagious, inspiring his friend, artist Jimmy Ulvenes, to start Small Craft Advisory to introduce the world (50 cassettes at a time) to Field School. When Summer Comes is a collection of these pocket-sized recordings, released as a debut album on Bobo Integral.

The result is pure Olympia, Washington, in both form and essence. With nods to K Records-style crash pop and its DIY ethos, Charles creates small-scale anthems, the type of which put Olympia on the map of musical influences. The nearly-mystical natural world of the Pacific Northwest is also featured, with apple orchards, rippling rain and aquatic phosphorescence drifting through the imagery. And with astonishing deftness, Charles also channels the questions and affinities of his older self through this effervescent style, allowing “twee” to grow up and flourish and renew.

When Summer Comes is a panoramic album, traveling through wistful recollections and insecurity with humor and beaming hope. It’s a reminder that after the separations of the pandemic, after hardship, after loss, we create our own now and we can keep learning and growing and living into the answers.

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released November 18, 2022

All songs written and performed by Field School ©2022

"Don't Let This Moment Pass You By" recorded and mixed by Ethan Jones. Additional percussion by Clara Ulvenes.

Mastered by Hanzsek Audio, Snohomish, Wash.

Painting by Jimmy Ulvenes.

Thanks to Jimmy Ulvenes, Gonzalo Marco, Chris Hanzsek, Ethan Jones, Jackson Long, Jules Bert-Worrell, Clara Ulvenes, Abby Wolf, Chris McFarlane, Calvin Johnson, Lois Maffeo, you.

SCA-004 Small Craft Advisory ©2022
BBI-030 Bobo Integral Records ©2022

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