End of August a song by Noah Kahan on
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About End of August
“End of August,” the opening track for Noah Kahan’s fourth studio album, The Great Divide, finds him at his most restrained, using the quiet collapse of summer as a metaphor for emotional endings that arrive without spectacle. Fixated on temporality, August serves as the last stretch of something fleeting, where every moment feels heightened precisely because it’s about to disappear. There’s an ache in the way Kahan frames memory, not as something distant, but as something actively slipping away in real time. .
End of August Lyrics
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[00:48.94] Richie and Austen are often along for the ride
[00:58.48] They don't say a lot, but they know every inch of this drive
[01:07.61] These trees started talkin', I bet you they'd only talk shit
[01:16.58] 'Cause we never do anythin' real, we just talk about it
[01:27.54] Endin' of August, the bugs are just startin' to die
[01:36.36] All the neighbors are votin' for someone who wins every time
[01:45.44] And I thought gettin' older meant knowin' it's too late to try
[01:54.81] And I tried gettin' sober, I swear I did bettеr this time
[02:01.27]
[02:05.34] Ooh, hm
[02:12.97] Ooh, hm
[02:21.73] Ooh, hm
[02:29.78] Ooh, hm
[02:37.89]
[02:37.90] Oh, everythin' you see out hеre will die
[02:43.78] Oh, it's a matter of time
[02:46.30] 'Til it's fields of ice and reflector lights
[02:50.55] 'Til it's our town, mm
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[02:54.87] And anythin' you need, I will provide
[03:00.00] A ride home or an alibi
[03:02.75] I know the traffic light you can speed right by
[03:07.35] 'Cause the camera's down
[03:11.42] And I follow New York plates to the county line
[03:15.80] I ignore 'em when they wave on 89
[03:20.55] The minute that September hits
[03:24.47] I'm goin' off my medicine, oh
[03:29.45] Late August angst and a pointless night
[03:33.55] Oh, and the feelin' of bein' alive
[03:38.15] For the first time in a long time
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[04:02.00] Oh, we're a drawin' of a place
[04:03.93] We're a photo on the fridge
[04:06.31] They mined copper for years
[04:08.47] Oh, there was nothin' left to dig
[04:10.27] It's a place where most kids
[04:12.75] Just grow up and have kids
[04:14.49] Who grow up and have kids
[04:16.67] Who build homes for the rich, oh
[04:18.25]
[04:18.26] Oh, everythin' you see out here will die
[04:24.41] Oh, it's a matter of time
[04:27.21] 'Til it's fields of ice and reflector lights
[04:31.70] 'Til it's our town
[04:33.25]
[04:36.18] 'Til it's our town
[04:39.64] 'Til it's our town
[04:44.09] And it's our town
[04:48.17] 'Cause it's ours now
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[04:54.42] 05072
[05:01.81] A long shadow
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