Dead Summer

(Rhythm: Slow, pulsing 6/8 time /ONE-two-three FOUR-five-six)

(Style: Dark atmospheric indie rock / dream pop / gothic ambient love song.

Male vocal. Breathless, fragile, hopeless, intimate.

The song feels like walking through thick fog at night while following fireflies near a black river.

Themes: drowning love, emotional exhaustion, devotion, disappearing into someone, quiet heartbreak.

Mood: hypnotic, melancholic, cinematic, slow-burning, soft but emotionally heavy.

No aggressive energy. No bright pop feeling. No happy resolution.

Tempo: 70 BPM

Time Signature: 6/8

Key: D minor or C# minor)

June hangs over the city

Heavy gold against the sky

Windows open after midnight

Warm air drifting through the night

Somewhere pools reflect the dark

Somewhere music fills the streets

I move through it like a ghost

Half awake in fading heat

Dead summer

Back inside my veins

Dead summer

Turning sweet into strange

Streetlights blur along wet roads

Thunder sleeping in the clouds

Everybody looks alive

I just feel the silence loud

Something pulls beneath my ribs

Every time the evenings stretch

Like the season knows a name

I still haven’t buried yet

Dead summer

Holding onto me

Dead summer

Like a wound no one can see

And the nights grow soft and endless

While the sky refuses rain

Every summer leaves me empty

Before it leaves again