Summer Camp Romance

It is one of my hopes to put up lyrics to songs by the band Everybodyduck so that they can be online and people can search for them and enjoy them. Everybodyduck is a band that used to play at Hume Lake Christian Camps and also did some touring. They are one of my favorite bands because their songs are fun but also very convicting and Christ-focused.

I just came back from my very first Summer Camp with Community Bible Church of Vallejo, CA. On the way up I drove and had a car full myself plus 4 female students. On the way home the bus was larger so I drove home by myself...and enjoyed listening to Everybodyduck's CD "8 Secons on a Holy Cow" :) One of the songs on there is "Summer Camp Romance." It's a funny song, but really it's an analogy based off of what, I'm sure, the members of Everybodyduck witnessed often at Hume Lake. Pay attention to the comparison made in the last verse. Here are the lyrics:

(guy singing)
Stumbled off the bus dazed by the smell of suntan lotion
[can't make out the lyrics] like some angelic sort of dance
our eyes locked through the haze of bugs transfixed with such emotion
[can't make out the lyrics] but I was in your trance.

(girl singing)
saved you a seat at dinner we held hands under the table
and I sacrificed for love by eating just with my left hand
though I could listen to you speak for hours I found I was not able
yeah, you sounded sweet but smelled so bad I still don't understand

chorus:(both)
I don't want to hear you have a boy(girl)friend back at home
please don't tell me you want to be friends
you're the only (boy/girl) that I could love this week
so come on baby please give love a chance
it's clear to me this year you'll be my summer camp romance

(guy singing)
well your friends said that my friends said you said I said I had kissed you
well I didn't and I haven't but I wish 'cause you're a fox
so I passed your friends a note I wrote I hope that it gets to you.
I wrote, "If you want to go steady, sugar, please just check that box."

(girl)
I successfully convinced you that night I was claustrophobic
hand in hand we snuck off in the dark to talk and get some air.
someone said, "kids these woods are no place to bloom a romance."
we deny the implication and claim we were deep in prayer.

(chorus)

(guy) bags all packed we come too soon to our final farewell
(girl) we're both tempted to lie and say we'll write
(guy) instead I say, "I hate you"
(girl) so then I say that you smell
(both) There's nothing more memorable than that last day break-up fight.

(guy)
As the buses slowly pull away I start to think about things
and I come upon a realization I find rather odd
It's a peculiar kind of love each year that somehow summer can bring
It's the kind of love repeatedly I offer up to God.

(girl)
God, there's things I want so I sweet talk to see if I can get them.
And I make a bunch of promises I've no intent to keep.
In a couple days I break it off and just try to ignore Him.
There's never a chance of drowning 'cause I don't wade in too deep.

(both)
I don't want to say "I'm going to love You all my life."
"Let's be satisfied just being friends."
"I'll be dedicated, but not for more than a week."
"Since You don't change there's nothing left to chance."
"I'll use You and then lose You like a summercamp romance."