: The title refers to the childhood joy and carefree experiences she feels she missed out on due to her family's economic and personal circumstances. The chorus explicitly ties this to her friend's life: "You smell like my missin' summers / All the fun I woulda had / If your daddy was my dad" .
: Sawayama contrasts her own upbringing with that of a wealthy friend who has a stable, "nuclear" family and a butler ("Richard will clean that up"). Rina Sawayama Missing Summers (Hold The Girl...
This theme of revisiting and "re-parenting" her younger self is a central pillar of the entire Hold the Girl era, which was largely inspired by intense therapy sessions Sawayama began in 2020. Missing Summers | Rina Sawayama Wiki | Fandom : The title refers to the childhood joy