One Summer Night

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"One Summer Night"
One Summer Night cover
Album track by That Dog
Album Totally Crushed Out!
Released July 18, 1995
Recorded October - November 1994
Length 2:10
Label DGC
Writer(s) Anna Waronker
Producer(s) Paul DuGre
Status Released
Totally Crushed Out! track listing
"Side Part"
(10)
"One Summer Night"
(11)
"Michael Jordan"
(12)

"One Summer Night" is the eleventh track on That Dog's second album, Totally Crushed Out!.

Overview

Anna: That's a story about me in ninth grade. The whole thing is true. It's about a senior in high school, a football guy. I was way too young to be having this young man courting me in the middle of the night. He was cute, though. I might as well use my life as material. It's got to be good for something. This song is the first time I decided to mix distortion and prettiness.

—1995 interview with Anna Waronker and Tony Maxwell

An early version of "One Summer Night" - perhaps an early mix of the album version - appears on the 1994 magazine compilation Volume #9.

Audio

Lyrics

One summer night
I was fourteen
He threw his thongs up at my window
And he asked if he could come up and see me

He sat in the quad
Across from me
He asked my opinions about his short stories
It was flattering

Saw him at the prom
He danced with me
I asked him if he'd write me when he went away to school
And he said, "maybe"

We kissed goodnight
I thought I'd never see him again
But he showed up at my window that one hot summer night
And I made him leave

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