Off Season Songtext
von David Alan Graham

By July the town gets quiet again
Rental signs hang in the heat and wind
Beach chairs stacked by the tiki bar
Parking spots open out by the shore

The spring break noise all packed and left
Now it′s just locals catchin' breath
Thunder rollin′ out past three
And the air hangs thick like memory

Funny how the silence comes
Right after all that noise burns out

It's off-season in this town
Sun beats hard and the crowds thin out
Rain rolls in 'bout every afternoon
Washes Main Street clean by two


And I′m learning slow what the tide knows now
Not every wave′s gotta draw a crowd
Some things fade and some things stay
Peace looks different in the August haze
Yeah there's beauty when the world slows down
In the off-season of this town

Saw old man Rick down at the dock
Said this is when this island talks
Winter pays and spring runs wild
But summer lets the locals breathe awhile

Coffee shop girl′s got time to sit
Nobody rushes, nobody quits
Sunset comes through a storm-cut sky
Purple and gold where the heatwave dies

Guess all my life I chased the noise
Like louder meant alive somehow

It's off-season in this town
Sun beats hard and the crowds thin out
Rain rolls in ′bout every afternoon
Washes Main Street clean by two


And I'm learning slow what the tide knows now
Not every wave′s gotta draw a crowd
Some things fade and some things stay
Peace looks different in the August haze
Yeah there's beauty when the world slows down
In the off-season of this town

Maybe life ain't in the rush
Maybe peace shows up when things let up
Not every season burns the same
Sometimes stillness is the change

It′s off-season in this town
Humidity hangs but the pace slows down
Just salt air, storms, and open roads
The kind of quiet only locals know

And I′m learning slow what the tide knows well
Everything changes and that's just life itself
Spent my days chasin′ the sun somehow
Now I know I don't have to run it down
There′s beauty when the world slows down
In the off-season of this town