Name: I Never Slept in the Summer Shade
Duration: P00H03M25S
Description: This is the first song I wrote during the 2020 lockdown. The song reflects on days that you could have lived more in the moment but instead had tunnel vision on where you thought you need to be going.

I Never Slept in the Summer Shade

by AJAY

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This is the first song I wrote during the 2020 lockdown. The song reflects on days that you could have lived more in the moment but instead had tunnel vision on where you thought you need to be going.

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Made the rounds, steady pressin' for a way out
Waves around, sailin' through em'
I'm in the wake now
And the strangest thing, you come you go
You strange now
And I'd play it all again, yeah
But they say them days are played out

Missing the morning sun
Won't wake up the moon at once
And longing for yesterday
Gon' make this a long run

Always runnin' through time
I never slept in the summer shade
Always lookin' so high
I never fell for a simple way

Prefacing, push through them pages to better things
And everything ain't night and day
Let it slip away
In these stranger times, summer morn' quickly turns to winter night
Satisfied by the candlelight
Caffeine daydreams gon' treat me right

Missing the morning sun
Won't wake up the moon at once
And longing for yesterday
Gon' make this a long run

Always runnin' through time
I never slept in the summer shade
Always lookin' so high
I never fell for a simple way

Always runnin' through time
I never slept in the summer shade
Always lookin' so high
I never fell for a simple way

credits

released October 21, 2022
AJAY - songwriting, vocals, production, guitar, bass, programmed drums
Jake Sherman - Rhodes, organ, acoustic drums (chorus)

Mixed by Brandon Shoop
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe
Album art by Spilly Cave

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AJAY Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, AJAY, encompasses the vast, experimental nature of modern sound design with the soul-drenched ingredients that defined Philadelphia for decades. The self-produced artist’s vulnerable falsetto vocals bring the nostalgia of 60s and 70s R&B into a new era of existential lyricism. ... more

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