Shimmer Chords by Shawn Mullins

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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Fm] Shining eyes are [Bb] big and blue _ and _
_ [Gm] _ _ all around him water [Eb] _ [Bb] flows. _ _ _
[Cm] This world to him is new.
_ [F]
[Eb] This world to him is new.
_ [Bb] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ Born [Bb] to shimmer, [F] he's born [Gm] to _ shine. _
[Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] Born to radiate, _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Eb] _ born [Bb] _ to live, [F] he's born [Gm] to _ love.
[Eb] But we will [Bb] teach him how [F] to hate.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ And this thing called our time, _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ I heard a brilliant woman [Bb] say. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Fm] She said, you know, it's [Eb] crazy how I want to try [Bb] and capture mine.
I [Cm] think I love this woman's way.
[Eb] I think I love this _ woman's. _
_ The way [Bb] she shimmers, [F] the way she [Gm] _ shines, _ _
[Eb] _ the way [Bb] she _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ radiates, _ _ _
[Eb] _ the way [Bb] she lives, [F] the way she [Gm] _ loves, _ [Bb] _
[Eb] _ the [Bb] way she never [F] hates. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ Sometimes _ I think [Eb] of all this that surrounds me.
[Bb] _ I know it all is being [F] _ _ mine.
_ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Cm] But she kisses [F] me and [Eb] she wraps herself around me. _
[Bb] _ And she gives me love.
[F] She gives me _ _ time.
Yeah, _ yeah, I _ feel [Eb] fine.
_ [Bb] Yeah, _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Gm] yeah, I _ [Bb] feel fine. _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [F] But time, I can [Bb] _ change. _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [F] So here's to [Gm] looking back. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ You [F] know, I drink a whole bottle of my [Eb] pride and I [Bb] toast to change.
[Cm] Keep these demons off my back.
[Dm]
[Eb] Just get these demons off my back.
_ [Bb] Because I [Eb] _ _ want to [Bb] shimmer.
_ [F] I want to [Gm] _
shine.
_ _ _ [Eb] I [Bb]
want to _ [F] radiate. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ I want [Bb] to live.
[F] I want to [Gm] love.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ I [Bb] want to try and learn not [F] to hate.
Try not to [Eb] hate.
We're [Bb] born to shimmer.
[F] _ We're [Gm] born to shine.
[Eb] _ We're _
[Bb] born to _ radiate.
[F] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] We're born [Bb] to live.
[F] We're born [Bb]
to love.
[F] _ _ [Eb] We're [Bb]
born to [F] never _ hate.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Born to shimmer.
_ _ Born to shine. _ _ _ _ _ _
Born to _ radiate. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ We're born to love. _ _ _ _ _ _
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