Summer Solstice Chords by Susan Ashton

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_ _ _ _ It must have [F] been summer solstice when I [Dm] first [G] gave my heart to you.
_ _ [Em] _ [G] _ First [Dm] day of a brand new [G] season in a [Dm] fevered [G] passion for your simple truth.
_ It was the longest I had ever felt for anything.
_ _ _ And it gave my [Am] soul a song to [D] sing.
[G] It must have been my _ adolescence that pulled me from my childlike _ fate.
_ _ But what I thought to be maturity was just neglect [Dm] [G] that I tried to vindicate.
_ And I went drifting on the wind like the autumn _ leaves.
But when I fell I landed on my [D] knees.
[G] So, _ _ _ _ [C] arms [G] around me and walk me [F] home.
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ Way too far, too long.
[F] _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ Standing broken [C] in this wilderness [G] of [D] shame. _
My [C] only strength is in your [G] name. _ _
Oh please, can you understand?
I have done [F] enough of getting me back [G] to square one.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] I never [F] saw that visit coming.
I just woke up and [G] I was on the ground.
_ _ _ And there were times [F] this beating heart [G] of mine was so stubborn.
It refused to make a sound.
Now I'm feeling so out of [C] my element.
_ [G] Frozen in the winter of my _ [D] discontent.
[G] So, _ _ _ _ _ arms around me and walk me [F] home.
_ [C] Way [G] too _ _ _ _ far, too long.
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ Standing broken [C] in this wilderness of shame.
[D] My [C] only strength is in your [G] name.
[Am] Oh, [G] father, _ please, can [C] you undo [G] what I've [F] done?
Get me back [G] to square one. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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And with the spring _ [C] comes [G] the fall.
Melting my [Cm] _ _ reviving [G]
all.
It comes full [D] circle.
[G] And then it's [Cm] summer _ _ [G] solstice again.
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[D] _ _ _ _ [G] So, _ can you throw _ around me and walk me [Em] _
[F] home?
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_ _ _ _ Oh, way too [Am]
long.
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] Standing broken in [C] this wilderness [Em] of [D] shame.
My _ [C] only strength is in your [G] name.
Oh, father, _ please, can you undo what I've done?
[F] Get me back to [G] square one. _
_ _ Back to the summer solstice.
_ Oh, can you take me [Dm] back?
_ [G] Take me back.
Oh, I'm gonna go. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Take me back.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ Take me back.
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_ _ _ _ _ Take me back.
Take me back.
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