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The grass is still warm, but the light is already shifting toward amber. If you don’t want to just accept this transition without a word, you’ll find the perfect soundtrack here—from Züri West to Taylor Swift to a fresh TikTok hit that captures exactly this moment of transition.
The original take on the subject, in Bernese German and completely free of pathos: Kuno Lauener simply lists what’s still possible as long as the car’s running and your team’s winning. That’s melancholy that really hurts. Oh, Kuno.
A Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac—that’s the whole image, and that’s what sticks with you. Mike Campbell actually wrote the riff for Tom Petty, but Henley snatched it up and turned it into the definitive elegy to lost youth.
Morten Harket holds a note for over twenty seconds—something listeners have to sit through at first. A video was filmed in Spain for this song, featuring the biggest chorus the band had to offer since their reunion.
In this song, Billie Joe Armstrong comes to terms with his father’s death, which gives the song its emotional power beneath the pop-punk surface. The music video, featuring Jamie Bell and Evan Rachel Wood, then shifts the story toward the Iraq War—a move that not everyone liked, but which has remained memorable to this day.
A song from 1968, from the era when Udo was still writing chansons instead of stadium anthems. A low-key pop song with real substance—just like the life he later led privately in Switzerland.
A trip-hop ballad with a music video that had half of pop culture talking in 2012: Jaime King and Lana as friends, a summer that takes a turn for the worse. That was the exact moment Lana went from being an insider’s pick to a stadium-filler.
Written in 1965, in New York, in the middle of winter, out of pure longing for California. The leaves were brown, the sky was gray—and yet it’s one of the warmest songs ever written about the cold.
Not a farewell, but rather a homecoming, since Young wrote it for his wife, Pegi. Harvest Moon instead of the end of the world—this is one of those rare instances where late summer evokes a sense of security rather than loss.
Ba-dee-ya—not a single line makes grammatical sense, and yet the whole world has been dancing to it since 1978. So here, September becomes a celebration rather than a swan song—an optimistic counterpoint to the rest of the list.
Dave Grohl singing softly, piano instead of a wall of guitars: a dream that wakes him up, and the realization that something is over before he can even grasp it. The quietest moment on an album that’s otherwise mostly loud.
The only brand-new song on this list, by an Israeli band that’s been going viral on TikTok since February 2026. Dark, rhythmic indie rock—closer to Hozier than to a classic summer hit—but the line “one way or another” captures exactly that tipping point between summer and what comes after.
The scarf, the fall kitchen: In ten minutes, Swift packs in everything that others hide in an entire album. That’s how she turns a lost relationship into her most-quoted lyric to date.
Jaël Malli in typical Swiss understatement, sung in English—no big drama, just a quiet acknowledgment that a chapter has come to an end. Perfect for a late-summer evening at the Marzili, the Lido Luzern, or the Badi Wollishofen, just before the sun sinks into the sea (oh, Kuno).