
Deftones
My Own Summer (Shove It)
My Own Summer turns heat into an enemy. The lyric wants shelter, no crowds, no sun, and a private season where glare cannot keep pressing against the body. Shade is not comfort here. It is equipment, a tool for surviving a world that has become too bright and too close.
That is why the shove refrain matters. It does not solve the pressure; it gives irritation a physical action. The riff keeps the escape trapped inside a repeating metal frame, so the song's fantasy of absence never becomes peace. It becomes refusal: push the sun aside, push the crowd aside, push the season aside, and still feel the burn in the room.

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