Sometimes that lake got angry
As the lightnin' went and crashed
Sometimes it was so still
It looked like a sheet of glass
But it washed away our beer cans,
And it washed away our sins
It talked us out of all our clothes
And begged us to jump in
There was magic in the summer water
Learned to swim in the summer water
All the small town sons and daughters
Were baptized a thousand times
Built fire by it like an altar
Gave it every song we could offer
Memories float on it like a bobber
Out there on the summer water
When a heart was broken
It was better than a church pew sanctuary
A lot of long kiss, rocks skip
Sun drenched orange crush bottle caps got buried
It's where you spend your first night with
Your first love before the mercury starts falling
It's where you spend the last with your first love
Before somebody goes to college
There was magic in the summer water
Learned to swim in the summer water
All the small town sons and daughters
Were baptized a thousand times
Built fire by it like an altar
Gave it every song we could offer
Memories float on it like a bobber
Out there on the summer water
There was something 'bout the summer water
Every girl that's where you brought her
It's where you slipped that ring you bought her
On her shakin' hand
Built fire by it like an altar
Gave it every song we could offer
Memories float on it like a bobber
Out there on the summer water