$ummer Friends - Intellectual

[Francis and the Lights]

Oh, oh, oh, incredible

My lord...incredible

I believe...

[B.K.P.]

Roaches on concrete, bitches in the backseat

I was talking back when I had to sneak high up the street

A skinny headed, curly headed stone headed Pittsburgh boy

One of my niggas ain't have his dad

I'm the only nigga that ain't want no choice

Maine, Rahmar, Elliott and them

Leisure Lake was a party back when

Getting high and I repeat it all again

Big booty bitches and school again

I'm still finding myself creatin regrets

I remember smoking weed in the backyard

Had to sneak around because I ain’t wanna get caught

Okay now, grand opening grand closing

Four Twenty, nigga’s fooling

Summer school I was always clueless

But the movement gave me improvement

Our summer don’t, that summer

That summer don’t define me no more

That summer died, that summer time don’t got no time no more

[Francis and the Lights]

(You’re my friend)

Summer friends don’t stay

Summer friends don’t stay, stay around

Summer friends, summer friends

Summer friends don’t stay

Summer friends don’t stay, hey

Stay around here

[B.K.P.]

Oh I used to kill’em with the curly hair

I remember hanging with friends going everywhere

Dad was working late, coming home was always a nightmare

I would smoke til dawn

Sold my ones like an auctioneer, hugh, hugh!

Now I miss them trill days, all the time every time, every day, wait

Already getting blessing, now God he got my fate

Never let a friendship get in my way

Never let a mention get in my way

Wrote all about my wrongs so fuck what they say

Leisure Lake, Boyd, Leisure again

Some of my homegirls just wanted to go berserk

I remember real friends but they flaked apart

Cause if it ain’t work, it’ll never work

It’s been a minute since I called on a friend

Fucked up and left all my friends, all my friends

All my friends, all my…

[B.K.P.]

What comes around

Summer friends, summer…

You’re my friend…

Summer friends only come around

Come around, hey

And some of us…

13, 50, 13, 50, hey

13, 13, 13, hey, hey, hey

You’re my friend

13, 50, 13, hey, 50

So put your head on my shoulder

Citywide, citywide, citywide, hey

Citywide, citywide, citywide

Citywide, citywide, citywide…

I will wait around for you

So lay your head on my table

Lay your head on my table

May the lord give your journey sturdy

May you be successful, grant me favors

He’ll bring you back safely, I love you

[Francis and the Lights]

When I was so young before I could remember

I would smoke with the gang from october to december

Even when I changed, my niggas never changed up

I always bring up friends, lost friends, old friends, those friends gone

When I was so young before I could remember

I would smoke with the gang from october to december

Even when I changed, my niggas never changed up

I always bring up friends, lost friends, old friends, those friends gone

Francis and the Lights says,

“my lord…incredible
I believe…”

In Chicago, shooting deaths spike in the summer, so that’s the time you’re most likely to have a friend die.

On “Pusha Man/Paranoia”, Chance says,

Cause everybody dies in the summer
Wanna say ya goodbyes, tell them while it’s spring
I heard everybody’s dying in the summer
So pray to God for a little more spring

Also, note the wordplay “some of my friends” and “summer friends.”

The beginning of this hook has a more personal reference to a “you” before going into the more general theme of the murder rates in Chicago in the summer. This line has a similar tone to a line from “Pusha Man/Paranoia” by Chance:

I know you scared
You should ask us if we scared too
I know you scared
Me too
I know you scared
You should ask us if we scared too
If you was there
Then we’d just knew you cared too

This line is similar to something a child might say to a new friend. It goes along with part of what I say with this hook as a whole, in the memories of my friends are deprived of the juvenile innocence because of the inherent murder there. There’s no ability to have that “summertime friend” that are fantasized about in movies or books. Summer instead becomes a time to dodge bullets as opposed to having fun.