The Other Side Of Summer Chords by Elvis Costello

_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [G] The sun struggles up another beautiful day, and I felt [Em] glad in my [D] own suspicious [G] way.
[C] Yeah, [G] yeah, _ [Cm] yeah, yeah, yeah.
Despite the [Em] contradiction and confusion, [D] felt trapped [C] without reason.
The smell [D] of sand was magic, it was.
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From the forming [Em] breakers of the water [Eb] to the surf, [G]
the [Em] other [Am] side of the [D] summer.
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Through the burning forest and the hills of ash, the other [D] _ [G] side of summer. _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ [G] The [Dm] automatic gates close up [Bb] between the chanters [A] and the bells,
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and the music, [D] the [A] food chants, [Dm] the pale, [C] pathetic promises [Bb] that [A] everybody's swallowed.
[D] The teenage [A] girl is crying [D] cause her dog is like a million dollars.
So help her if you can, cause she don't [E] seem to [Bm] have the attention [G] span.
From the forming breakers [Em] of the water [Eb] to the surf, [G] the [Em] other [Am] side of the [D] summer.
_ [G] Through the burning forest [Em] and the hills [Eb] of ash, [G] the other [D] side [C] of [G] summer.
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[G] Why stay up [Dm] all day?
_ _ [D] You said imagine [A] no possessions.
[Dm] I bought a little school bus [Gm] and you said you don't [A] need no lessons.
[Dm] The rabbit [C] rabble dogs, [Bb] the ransacked [A] shampoo shop, [D] the puffin [A] says his dad's [D] ass should look.
And if that got us, you'd stick a burning, [Bm] the sun's trouble up the world and [D] still keep burning.
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Mad men standing by the side of the road, singing from my [Em] eyes to my [Am] eyes to my [D] eyes to [G] my eyes.
[C] Yeah, [G] yeah, _ [Cm] yeah, yeah, [G] yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now [Bm] you can't afford to [Am] pay all the [D] drugs your parents [C] used to take.
Because [D] you're in a school, you better be wide [G] awake.
From the forming breakers [Em] of the water [Eb] to the surf, [G] the other [Em] side [Am] of the [D] summer.
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Through the burning forest [Em] and the hills [G] of ash, the other [D] side [G] of summer.
I [Dm] see the souls [Em] that pass through [Eb] the curfew, [G] the [Em] curfew, the _ [Am] military [D] curfew.
[G] The cod fox said to [Em] Emma, I want [Eb] your birthday.
[G] The other [D] side [C] of [G] summer.
The dancing, the _ _ musicals, the early [Em] dreams.
[Am] They sing of [D] the worthless, [G]
goodnight, God bless and kiss [Em] [Eb] goodbye to the earth.
[G] The other [D] side [C] of [G] _ _ _ _
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