Summer a.m.

Scizor a.k.a. EnTai delivers a nostalgic Summer tune for the end of the season, "Summer a.m."
These days, even Summer mornings can feel unbearably hot. That heat brought back a memory from elementary school: the feeling that Summer mornings used to be cool. Looking back on those Summers, EnTai captures a sense of nostalgia and bittersweetness in this track.
The song begins with a simple childhood feeling: "Even though it's Summer vacation and there's no school, I can still see the girl I had a crush on." That innocent crush made even a supposedly cool Summer morning feel hot. The song captures that distinctly childhood perspective from its very first lines.
The lyrics are filled with small details drawn from those memories. The English he had just learned in his favorite class is used more frequently than usual, reflecting the childish urge to show off newly learned English. (He stopped being able to keep up with English classes in his second year of middle school, and now he's not very good at it.) He also remembers calling both the freezer and refrigerator simply "the refrigerator," so the lyrics intentionally use "refrigerator" when describing taking ice cream out. Another detail comes from a split popsicle, a frozen treat that can be broken into two halves. The lyrics even reflect his childhood way of thinking about the two halves as "two pieces," capturing the innocent logic of a child. Every detail was carefully crafted to recreate the way he saw Summer as a child.
Love, heat, and the end of Summer.
A song that gathers up memories from elementary school one by one, "Summer a.m." grows more nostalgic with every listen-a perfect track to close out the Summer.