I was in my early 40s when this song came out. I instantly loved the deep passion that burned in it. I'd come from working on a ranch, followed by my own hobby farm. At the latter my own children were molested. This song is not about a woman taking advantage of, and molesting an innocent teen. Molesting is about power tripping and an expression of ugliness in the soul of the molester.

That Summer speaks of the loneliness that can build working the land. There is a constant demand on her physically while surrounded by the passions of nature all around her. A longing grows, seeking release... but only seeking it in another who understands and feels life as she does. She saw something, and came to him. She put forth her longing, not in words but in gestures "that even a boy could recognize." The word boy is used because he was still an inexperienced virgin. He would have had his own longings by that age.

Last Summer is the only song I stopped to learn the words to that year (or since). It draws the longing from a woman's heart to share the real love and passion that she is born with. Society knocks her down, church's say it's owned by a husband, etc. There, on the land it was free to be expressed in purity and power. This song touched me and still does over twenty years later. Those that cheapen its meaning are wounded souls that have not learned, dreamed of, or experienced the meaning of what this song describes. Let both the lyrics and the music penetrate your heart and this song will play within you for years to come.