Summer Solstice Chords by Susan Ashton

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you _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ It must have been summer solstice
When I first gave my heart to you
_ _ _ _ _ First day [Dm] of a brand new [G] season
In a fevered passion for your simple truth
_ _ It was the longest I had ever felt [D] for anything
_ _ [G] _ And it gave my soul a song [D] to sing
_ [G] It must have been my adolescence
_ That pulled me from my childlike fate
_ _ _ _ What I thought to be maturity
_ Was just neglect that I tried to bend
_ _ And I went drifting on the wind like the autumn leaves
_ But when I fell I [A] landed on my knees
_ [G] So _
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_ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] Standing broken [G] in this wilderness of shame
[D] I have the [C] only strength to live my [G] day
_ [A] Fall [G] on your knees
[C] Can you [G] undo what [A] I've done?
[F] _ Getting back to [G] square one
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_ _ _ _ _ Never saw that blizzard coming
Just woke up and I saw it on the _ ground
_ _ There were times this beating heart
Was so stubborn
It refused to make a sound
But now I'm feeling so out [C] of my element
_ _ [G] Frozen in the winter [D] of my discontent
_ [G] _ _ [A]
Storms [G] _ _ are pounding
_ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ And I'm feeling so out of my element Never [G] _ wondered
[A] _ What [G] we'd do for a [A] broken [F] love
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ Standing broken [C] in this wilderness of [D] shame
I have the [C] only strength to live my [G] day
[A] Fall [D] on your [C] knees
Can you [G] undo what [A] I've done?
[F] _ Getting back [G] to square one
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And when the spring [D] comes
_ [G] The fall's melting my
[Cm] _ _ [C] Reviving [G]
all
It comes full [A] _ circle
[G] And then it's summer [Cm] _ _ _ [G] solstice again
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_ _ _ _ [G] So [A] can you [G] throw _ _ me one keyhole?
[D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [A]
I've lived all [G] the way to fall for a [A] broken [F] love
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ Standing broken [C] in this [D] wilderness of shame
I have found my only [C] strength is in your name
_ [G] _ [A] Oh, Father, please
[D] Can [G] you undo what [E] I've done?
[F] Getting back to [G] square one
Back _ to the summer _ solstice
_ _ _ Can you take me [Dm] back there?
[G] I [D] wanna [G] go _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Take me back
_ [G] _ _ _ _ Take me
_ _ Take _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ me
_ Take me _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ back _ _
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