<P> "That Summer started out as a single guy and a married woman meeting at a party . The married woman being ignored by whom she was with, and they snuck off together . Allen Reynolds told me, "Man, I just don't find myself pulling for these characters . It doesn't seem innocently cool ." I was thinking that he was right . Going home that night in the truck I started singing she has a need to feel the thunder . Sandy started helping me write the chorus and we got the chorus done . Probably one of the neat things that I love about That Summer is that I think the song is very sexy ." </P> <P> The song is about a teenage boy "far from home" who goes to work for a "lonely widowed woman hellbent to make it on her own". The woman apparently lives on a wheat farm ("wheat fields as far as I could see"). </P> <P> The apparently older woman slowly takes a liking to the young boy, to the point where one night she dons a dress "she hadn't worn in quite a while"; it is then implied by the rest of the second verse that the teenage boy loses his virginity by having sex with the more than willing middle - aged woman . </P> <P> The third verse takes the now adult man back to the scene of his coming of age, having not seen the woman since long ago . Although the man has been with several other women by this point, he rarely doesn't see her face . And every time he passes a wheat field, he feels her hungry arms again . </P>

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