Summer Belongs to You (song)

Summer Belongs to You is a song from the special "Phineas and Ferb Summer Belongs to You!", performed when the group returns home. It is sung by Phineas, Isabella and Candace.

Lyrics
Phineas: It's been a long, long day

And there were moments when I doubted

Isabella: That we'd ever reach the point

Where we could laugh and sing about it

Phineas and Isabella: Now the sun has set on this,

Another extraordinary day

And when it comes around again

You know I'll say

Tell me whatcha wanna do today

All we need is a place to start

If we have heart, we'll make it

'Cause we're not messing around (we're not messing around)

Yes we can dream it, do it, build it, make it

I know we can really take it

To the limit before the sun goes down

Phineas: As soon as you wake up you gotta make your move

Isabella: Don't miss the beat, just get into the groove

Phineas and Isabella: The sun is shining, there's a lot that you can do (a lot that you can do)

There's a world of possibilities outside your door

Why settle for a little, you can get much more

Don't need an invitation, every day is new

Yes, it's true

Summer belongs to you (Summer belongs to you)

Summer belongs to you (Summer belongs to you)

Summer belongs to everyone, so have some fun

There's nothing better to do

Summer belongs to you

Candace: All right, I'm taking a verse.

Phineas: Be my guest.

Candace: I traveled halfway around the world

And almost turned and ran away

But you helped me get my courage back

So now I've got to say

That though I've often thought of you

As just a nuisance and a bother

Today I can't imagine

Having better little brothers

And you gotta believe in something

So today I believed in you

And you came through, we made it

I've never been so proud (never been so proud)

I know at first it seemed implausible

But we accomplished the impossible

Now there's something that I've got to say out loud

Time is what you make of it, so take a chance

Phineas: That's it!

Life is full of music so you ought to dance

Phineas: She's got it!

The world's a stage and it is time for your debut

Phineas: By jove, I think she's got it!

Don't waste a minute sitting on that chair

Phineas: Yeah!

The world is calling so, just get out there

Phineas: That's what I'm talking about!

You can see forever so your dreams are all in view

Phineas: Yes it's true

Phineas, Isabella and Candace: Summer belongs to you (summer belongs to you)

Summer belongs to you (summer belongs to you)

Summer belongs to everyone, so have some fun

There's nothing better to do

Phineas and Isabella: Summer belongs to you (summer belongs to you)

Summer belongs to you (summer belongs to you)

Summer belongs to boys and girls all around the world

We wouldn't say it if it wasn't true

Summer belongs to you (summer belongs to you)

Ferb: Baby, baby, baby, baby

Phineas and Isabella: Summer belongs to you (summer belongs to you)

Summer belongs to you (summer belongs to you)

Whatever you want to do, you make the rules

You got the tools to see it through

Summer belongs to you (summer belongs to you)

Summer belongs to you (summer belongs to you)

Just remember that you can do it and when you're through it

Will change your point of view

Summer belongs to you!

Background Information

 * This is the first song from the series with a length of at least three minutes, the average length of a pop song.
 * In the soundtrack version of this song, although Candace and Jeremy's dialogue lines are muted out, Jeremy can still be heard saying "Hey!" if listened closely.
 * "The world's a stage" is similar to "all the world's a stage," a famous analogy from Shakespeare's As You Like It.
 * Jove is another name for the Roman god Jupiter, whose Greek name is Zeus. "By Jove" is a non-blasphemous exclamation, comparable to "by gosh" or "by golly."
 * "By Jove, I think she's got it!" is also a line from the musical My Fair Lady.
 * A small part of the song's instrumental part is similar to the beginning of "You Can't Stop the Beat" from the broadway musical/film adaptation Hairspray.
 * This song is so far the longest on Phineas and Ferb that has been in an episode.
 * In this song, it is shown that Candace and Jeremy's relationship, and Isabella and Phineas's relationship were becoming visibly closer.
 * In the Chinese/Taiwanese version one bit of Candace's verse is sung by Olivia Olson, who voices Vanessa Doofenshmirtz.
 * Right before the song starts, Irving appears in a cameo behind Phineas. Jenny, Django, Coltrane, and Unknown Fireside Girl (blond) appear during the song also.
 * When Jenny and Stacy dance while Phineas and Isabella get on the stage to start singing the chorus, Isabella's hair is almost completely missing when the screen turns red.
 * This is one of the rare moments Candace has shown physical affection for Ferb. She tousled his hair when she was singing. (She also hugged him when they were singing Come Home, Perry and Technology vs. Nature.)
 * Ferb and other characters randomly appear and disappear from out of nowhere during the song.
 * The music video was number 3 overall in the Radio Disney Music Countdown for 2010.
 * The song was nominated and won "Best Song on a TV Series" for the 2010 toonzone awards.

Songwriters

 * Dan Povenmire
 * Jeff "Swampy" Marsh
 * Martin Olson
 * Michael Culross

Continuity

 * When Ferb says, "Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby," it is similar to the way he says it in Gitchee Gitchee Goo, only the tune is higher-pitch and reversed.
 * This is the 6th time Isabella sings on her own at least once. The other times are In the Mall from "The Magnificent Few", The Ballad of Badbeard (song) from the episode of the same name, Where Did We Go Wrong? and Danville for Niceness from "Phineas and Ferb's Christmas Vacation", and City of Love from "Phineas and Ferb Summer Belongs to You!"
 * Scenes from "Rollercoaster", Go, Go, Phineas, Backyard Beach, Queen of Mars, Gitchee Gitchee Goo, I Love You Mom, S.I.M.P. (Squirrels In My Pants), My Chariot, Shooting Star Milkshake Bar, Gotta Make Summer Last and Give Me a Grade are shown at the end.
 * Also, Buford pushes the front of the rollercoaster to the stage with Phineas, Ferb and Isabella inside it.
 * Candace and Jeremy had their first kiss during this song, in broadcast order for many countries. In production order and Latin America, this is their second attempt at a kiss after "Split Personality".
 * The line "There's a world of possibilities outside your door" may be be a reference to "Rollercoaster" where one of the last lines is "There's a world of possibilities".
 * In this song, every character to appear in the show up to that point are shown at least once during the performance.