My Own Summer (Shove It) Lyrics
`Cause I'm through, when the two
Hits the six and it's summer
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
Aside (shove it aside!)
There's no crowds in the streets
And no sun in my own summer
See, I try and look up to the sky
But my eyes burn
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
Aside (shove it aside!)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
Aside (shove it aside!)
There's no crowds in the streets
And no sun in my own summer
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it!)
Aside (shove it aside!)

"My Own Summer" is the perfect world in where no one cares to see everything and be out and a part of the normal society. They'd rather be in the dark, and they wouldn't care about the way a person looked because they wouldn't see them. Everyone would get to know the real person before they were judged. And they also wouldn't be a part of this fake happiness that the sun symbolizes. They would find their own happiness by just being themselves. And if they tried to "look up" (do their own thing, be happy with themselves and set goals, etc.) the sun wouldn't be there to "burn" them and say that that isn't what they're supposed to do, and that it isn't right. In summary I guess the summer, the perfect world is one where everyone is equal and can do whatever they want to without getting criticized for it. And by the way...I think when the two hits the six means (going back to the clock thing) 6:30. Two hands are on the "6". And what happens around 6:30 in the summer? The sun rises. That's when Chino says he is through, and he wants to find shelter. That's when "summer" starts. Makes sense doesn't it? Hope it wasn't too bad...
im not sure if this is correct but i heard that the two hitting six was representing 2:30, which isnt that the point where the sun is highest in the sky in summer?
im not sure if this is correct but i heard that the two hitting six was representing 2:30, which isnt that the point where the sun is highest in the sky in summer?
I interpreted 2 hits the six as 2:30 - which could mean when the sun is the highest, or when school gets out, i.e. the beginning of summer vacation.
I interpreted 2 hits the six as 2:30 - which could mean when the sun is the highest, or when school gets out, i.e. the beginning of summer vacation.
I think your interpretation is spot on, although your guess may be just as good as mine. But nevertheless, I can see the theme here. The summer is a time of revealing mostly because people wear less clothes and such, he uses this as an allegory for people judging off of school and summer in general. People judge heavily on appearance in the summer, during winter months and autumn, people are in school and mostly focusing on intellect. The act of looking up at the light may be those who attempt to change or embrace the light may get burned,...
I think your interpretation is spot on, although your guess may be just as good as mine. But nevertheless, I can see the theme here. The summer is a time of revealing mostly because people wear less clothes and such, he uses this as an allegory for people judging off of school and summer in general. People judge heavily on appearance in the summer, during winter months and autumn, people are in school and mostly focusing on intellect. The act of looking up at the light may be those who attempt to change or embrace the light may get burned, such as the form of being ruined by the ridicule of the people by basking in the "light" or attention. Perhaps somebody stands too long in the sun to attempt to look better, instead they get burned? This is why he asks for "big mood; guide me to shelter" to escape the light and hide for the summer.

These Deftones songs can have a lot of meanings ...here's one of them : it makes me thing of a person closed in himself , constructing his own world : no crowds on the streets , no sun... pretty autistic :P

I love the line "God is moving its tongue", but I think he means that God is the one tormenting everyone w/the heat. And b/c God is so powerful, just a move of his tongue can cause torment throughout the world. In other words, God's not using much effort, yet Chino is experiencing the harsh consequences. Its kinda like God could just move his tongue and it could be earthquakes across the earth, he could move his finger, and devastate the masses.. something like that. I like that fact that he uses "its" too. It demonstrates a certain unknown about God. We don't know what God is really like contrary to existing religions.
Yeah, and the "its" gives a sense of the inhuman and alien nature of the god of the world depicted in this song.
Yeah, and the "its" gives a sense of the inhuman and alien nature of the god of the world depicted in this song.

'no sun' in my own summer. The sun is oftenly associated with happiness, because light is. Darkness is associated with sadness. No sun means dark, which makes me kinda think of depression when he says 'no sun' in my own summer. I hate summer....

I think when he says that god is moving its tongue, he means god is mocking him about the heat, perhaps by sticking his tongue out at him.

"i think God is moving it's tongue" it may mean tongue as "language"
like, he thinks God is changing his way of expressing like, the world seems different now, to Chino

what elephant?

It's a Christ diss actually most of the band is wicca. they also diss the sun god minerva but they atone for it with minerva

I'm pretty sure this song is about albinism

"My Own Summer" was written in Seattle, during the hot summer of 1994. Trapped inside of his room by the heat and sun, Chino boarded up his windows with aluminum foil and wished for "an apocalyptic-type thing" where all of the people on the streets would disappear and the sun would go away. He called this dreamworld "his own summer," which is where the song title comes from.