Cover art for September Song by Ian McCulloch

September Song

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September Song Lyrics

Well, it's a long, long time
From May to December
But the days grow short
When you reach September
And the autumn weather
Turns the leaves to gray
And I haven't got time
For the waiting game

And the days dwindle down
To a precious few...
September, November...
And these few precious days
I spend with you
These precious days
I spend with you

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Echo & the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch’s cover of “September Song”, an American standard popular song composed and written in 1938 by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson respectively, was released in 1984 as his debut solo single. It reached number 51 on the UK Singles Chart in the same year.

The cover was also included as a bonus track on the 2012 expanded version of McCulloch’s debut solo album, Candleland, which was originally released on September 17, 1989.

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1984
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