Frank Ocean shares new song “Summer Remains” on Tumblr

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In the lead-up to his debut studio album, Frank Ocean shared a homemade video recording of him playing the piano and singing a new song, titled “Summer Remains,” on his Tumblr blog. He captioned the post:

Just at home f-ckin’ around, no judging.

Alongside the clip, he posted the track’s lyrics as a screenshot of a TextEdit document on a MacBook. Around the 42-second mark of the video, Ocean pauses after forgetting the words, appears to reference the computer document, then starts over and plays the song to completion.

The Tumblr post is embedded below, along with the lyrics. Fans have also made backups and remastered versions on YouTube and SoundCloud.

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Tumblr: @frankocean.

Lyrics:

Right hand to God
Left hand holding the jewels
And I’m swearing up and down
I’m cursing out the Moon
Tide stole my youth
These creases in my brow ain’t tan lines
Saltwater swole my eyes (Beach life)
The sun’s burning black and blue (on my green eyes)
Too cold this side of June

It ain’t natural

Right hand in yours
Left hand holding the juice
When that jungle flower blooms
Leave it in the ground
Don’t try to cut it out
The creases in your brow ain’t tan lines
Saltwater swole your eyes (Beach life)
The sun burned black and blue (on your green eyes)
Too cold this side of June

It ain’t natural

I’ll rebel, I’ll rebel
But it ain’t natural
I take care, I take care
It’s just not growing well
I’m no match for you
It’s not hard to tell
This isn’t going well

But we’re under the palm trees
Thinking heaven must be
Somewhere under these palm trees
With all the hell we’re raising
At least we had the palm trees
To shade us from the ray beams
But not even the palm trees
Could save us from the flames
Summer remains

Update 2012-07-16: Frank Ocean performed “Summer Remains” at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, California, on his Channel Orange Tour; filmed by David Lawlor.

Update 2012-09-21: Frank Ocean performed “Summer Remains” at Pier 36 in New York, New York; filmed by Kentronimus.

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