John Paul Cooper:
(born 1 November 1983).
English singer and songwriter. He is best known for featuring on the single “Perfect Strangers” by DJ and producer Jonas Blue. The song was certified platinum in the UK. His follow-up solo single was “September Song”. He is signed to Island Records.
You were my September song. Summer lasted too long.
> “You were my September song / Summer lasted too long.”
This is a lyric from “September Song”, released in 2016 by English singer-songwriter      JP Cooper. It later appeared on his debut album ‘Raised Under Grey Skies’ (2017).
It is therefore ‘a song lyric, not a traditional proverb or established saying’. JP Cooper performed and co-wrote the song, so it is commonly attributed to him, although the song has additional co-writing credits.
đź’ Meaning:
The song nostalgically recalls a romance from when the narrator was about fifteen:
– “You were my September song”
— the person is associated with September, the end of summer, and a memorable period of young love.
– “Summer lasted too long”
— summer seemed to pass slowly, perhaps because he was waiting to see that person again when school resumed.
– More broadly, the lines express how ’time can feel endless in adolescence’, while those youthful relationships later seem distant and fleeting.
The phrase has a bittersweet autumnal feeling: ‘a cherished love remembered after the relationship and youth have passed’.
