Hot Heavy Summer - Ben Howard, Sylvan Esso

Baby wants to dance

Past the flat-footed charterhouse boys

From towns where the mothers can’t stand

The sight of each other

Baby wants to last

In the hearts of the wild and free

She knows that time takes all of us

Through every long hot heavy summer

And all of them, they talk of national security

Over garden fences made to buff the bastard breeze

Of chance encounters

Baby wants to dance

Past the Tuesday morning supermarket crowd

She knows we’ll all sleep through the days

The Two-step drip fed our laughter

Says she wants to last

Last how you want to

She’s a light in the young boy’s eyes

Through every long hot heavy summer

And all of them, they talk of national security

Over garden fences made to buff the bastard breeze

Yeah all of them, shuffling down that lonely street

One last gasp

Against a long hot heavy summer