The Ultimate Summer Songs

The Summer Sends Its Love - Sherwood
The summer sends the love to you / The same as every year / But this year I will send mine too / And wish that you were here

Oceans from the Rain - Seventh Day Slumber
You make oceans from the rain / Breathing life into this place / And I will drown inside your love / Until I see your perfect face

California - Phantom Planet
Pedal to the floor / Thinkin' of the roar / Gotta get us to the shore / California here we come / Right back where we started from

Beautiful Day - U2
It's a beautiful day / Don't let it get away

Dusk and Summer - Dashboard Confessional
And she pulled you in and she bit your lip / The grasp of dusk and summer

Soak Up the Sun - Sheryl Crow
I'm gonna soak up the sun / Gonna tell everyone / To lighten up

The Boys of Summer - The Ataris
But I can see you / Your brown skin shinin' in the sun / You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby / And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong / After the boys of summer have gone

Girls of Summer - Aerosmith
When winter hearts turn summer pink / In half the time it takes to blink / But it all depends on what'you think / About the girls of summer

It's Been a Summer - New Found Glory
I'd know when you would come back / It's been a summer / It's burning up in here / Even though the bed is cold on your side / I'd rather die than spend this night here without you

Passenger Seat - Death Cab for Cutie
I roll the window down / And then begin to breathe in / The darkest country road / And the strong scent of evergreen / From the passenger seat as you are driving me home

Ocean City Girl - Ivy
Staring out into another world / Tide is rising, but time is standing still / Ocean city girl / Is smiling

It Was Summer ... (Baby Steps) - October Fall
And it was summer / Don't hide your sunburn / Wear that shirt that's cut so low

Walking On Sunshine - Jump5
I'm walkin' on sunshine whoa! / And don't it feel good?

Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard
There's a place on the corner of Cherry Street / We would walk on the beach in our bare feet / We were both 18, and it felt so right / Sleeping all day, staying up all night

Summer Skin - Death Cab for Cutie
On the night you left I came over / And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders / Our brand new coats so flushed and pink / And I knew your heart I couldn't win / Cause the seasons change was a conduit / And we left our love in our summer skin

Steal My Sunshine - Len
And of course you can't become if you only say what you would have done / So I missed a million miles of fun

We're at the Top of the World (To The Simple Two) - The Juliana Theory
We're at the top of the world / You and I / We've got alot of time and it sure feels right

Hands Down - Dashboard Confessional
Hands down this is the best day I can ever remember / I'll always remember the sound of the stereo / The dim of the soft lights / The scent of your hair that you twirled in your fingers

Sunsets and Car Crashes - The Spill Canvas
And in case you were wondering, you are like a sunset to me / You're all kinds of beautiful as you end my day / And you sweetly retire as the stars chase you away

Sunshine (That Acid Summer) - Everclear
We were wasted and happy / We were laughing in the sunshine

Photobooth - Death Cab for Cutie
And as the summer's ending / The cold air will rush your hard heart away / You were so condescending / And this is all that's left scraping paper to document / I've packed a change of clothes and it's time to move on

Summer '79 - The Ataris
"We Are the Champions" playing out on the radio station / Everyone sing along with these anthems of our generation / Cruisin' down Pacific Coast Highway / Put the top down, crawl into the back seat / Let's create anthems of our own tonight

Ocean Breathes Salty - Modest Mouse
The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in? / In your head, in your mouth, in your soul. / And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both grow old.

Hail To Whatever You Found In The Sunlight That Surrounds You - Rilo Kiley
Hail to those who have come from the sunlight that surrounds you / Pray for those who have gone from the sunlight that surrounds you

Hurricane - Something Corporate
You don't do it on purpose / But you make me shake / Now I count the hours 'til you wake / With your babies breath / Breathe symphonies / Come on sweet catastrophe

Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch / Who watches over you / Make a little birdhouse in your soul

Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
The sun may rise in the east / At least it settles in the final location / Its understood that hollywood / Sells californication

Edge of the Ocean - Ivy
Oh, we can begin again / Shed our skin, let the sun shine in / At the edge of the ocean / We can start over again

From California - The New Amsterdams
Mapping it out like a master plan / Something to do with my idle hands / Write you a letter addressed from California

Staring at the Sun - TV on the Radio
(You're staring at the sun) / Oh my own voice / Cannot save me now / (standing in the sea) / It's just one more breath / And then I go down

You're So Last Summer - Taking Back Sunday
The truth is you could slit my throat / And with my one last gasping breath / I'd apologize for bleedin on your shirt

Back to California - Sugarcult
Leave it all the fights and all / Summer’s getting colder / Drive all night to hold you tight / Back to California

Motorcycle Drive-By - Third Eye Blind
Summer time and the wind is blowing outside / In lower Chelsea / And I don't know what I'm doing in this city / The sun is always in my eyes