Standard (EADGBE)

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Chords used:

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Intro

x4

Verse 1

 in the tall grass of a long sun

 a quiet repast and I'm sweet nothings

come hell I'm your lover your

man your friend your fair weather

 it's a world stopped afternoon

passion legs your wordless

all blue routes to your birth

 place chalk white wincing pretty in it

Interlude

x2

Verse 2

summer dress your hair's wet

 and gets into our kisses

can you tell why my intentions

wind up near misses

 there's a kindness in your

 smile but my sky plays fatal music

 there's the promise and the

 shell of great beginnings seldom finished

Chorus

in the laze of a barefoot

 afternoon, oh what's a boy to do?

Sunday eyes, am I losing you?

is the summer really through?

Verse 3

 straps down and overtired

 if I had a favorite picture

 I'd call it right now

 uncertain braced for your disaster

summer gown were you sent

 down to wrestle me to reason

 I'm a thrown fight in your

 favor I'll do everything

 but listen to you now

Chorus 2

in the laze of an empty afternoon

it's all happening too soon

Sunday eyes, am I losing you?

say it isn't true

Brdige:

in the summer you really know

that it doesn't feel like

 the summer so much anymore

but I keep trying to find

 you somewhere smiling

 over me over you over me

Piano solo

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Verse 4

summer girl all summer

 long you know the winter's wrong

southbound those motel towns

 can mend most broken mornings

 there's citrus groves where

 noone knows the fruit of truth from evil

 and a long walk on a short pier

 means nothing more than swimming here

Chorus 3

there's an end but we don't

 get to choose we can only lose

if I cried a river just for you

would you swim in it

 some sunny afternoon?

Outro

in the summer you'll really know

you're the only summer that

 I think I'll ever know

so I'll keep trying to

find you somewhere smiling

I'll keep trying to

find you smiling

 for me over you over me