"The Boys of Summer" Parody for the Cleveland Browns

I often sing to myself around the house and there are several songs I get significant parody mileage out of but Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" is a particular favorite to quote.

Henley's song is catchy and popular. He sings about themes and images everyone can understand: sports, summer, love, youth, pain, loss of innocence. Everyone sings along to it when it plays on the radio and it's spawned a few popular covers.

As I was following the saga of this year's Cleveland Browns  (a subject I am familiar with) when I started singing Henley's song because the "empty lake, empty streets" is an image I associate with Cleveland.

My parody is dedicated to all those Browns fans out there in "Believeland" who are"waiting for next year."

Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I’m pulling out my hair
This season’s out of reach

Empty lake, empty streets
I watch the game alone
I'm crying in my house
Oh no, we lost at home

But I can see them
My Browns team fadin’ in the sun
You got your Weeden dropped back or your
Brian Hoyer on baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the 2013 season is gone

I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was all a bad dream
Remember how they made me crazy?
Remember how they made me scream?
Now I don't understand
Why we had to hire Chud
But babe after next year’s draft
We’re gonna have a real big comeback

I can see them
My Brown’s team fadin’ in the sun
I see you drafting any Joe Blow
who won’t be able to run
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the 2013 season has gone

Out on the road today
I saw a “Go Pack!” sticker on a old Outback
A little voice inside my head said:
"Don't look back, you can never look back"
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
The 70‘s are gone forever
I should just let them go but

I can see them
My Brown’s team fadin’ in the sun
You got to head downtown
with the sports radio on baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the 2013 season has gone

I can see them
My Brown’s team fadin’ in the sun
You traded away a running back and you signed Willis McGahee
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the 2013 season has gone