The Summer Chords by Josh Pyke

_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ If I could [Gm] bottle up the sea breeze I [Bb] would take it over to your house [Eb] and pour it loose
through your [Fm] garden so the hinges on your [G] windows would rust and colour [Ab] like the boats
pulled up [Eb] on the sand for the summer [Bbm] and your sweet clean closet [Ab] goes stiff on the learnt
[Bb] and deadly sand in your [Bbm] pockets and nothing on your mind.
_ Oh, [Fm] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. _ _ _ _
_ But every year [Eb] it gets a little [F] bit harder [Ab] to get back to that [Eb] feeling of when we were
fifteen [Fm] and you could jump in the river [Eb] upstream [F] and let the [Ab] current carry us to the beginning
[Eb] where the river met the sea [Bbm] again and all the [Eb] days were a sun drenched haze while the
salt spray [Bbm] crusted on the window _ panes.
Oh, [Fm] oh, oh, oh, oh, [F] oh.
_ _ _ [Ab] We should be living like we [F] lived that summer.
[Cm] I wanna live [C] like we [Eb] lived in the summer.
[Ab] We should be living like we lived that summer.
[Cm] I wanna live [D] like we [Eb] lived in the [Ab] summer.
We should be living like we lived that summer.
[Cm] I wanna live like we [Eb] lived in the summer.
[Ab] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] And I'll remember [Eb] that summer as the right [Ab] one, the storms [Bb] made the [Eb] pavement steam like
a kettle [Fm] and our first [Eb] goodbyes always seemed like [Ab] hours in the car [Bb] park in [Eb] between my house
and yours and [Bbm] if the summer holds a song [Ab] we might sing [Eb] forever.
The winter holds a bite we [Bbm] never felt _ before.
_ Oh, [Fm] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. _ _ _
[Ab] We should be living like we lived that summer.
[Cm] I wanna live [C] like we lived [Eb] in the summer.
[Ab] We should be living like we lived that summer.
[Cm] I wanna live [D] like we lived [Eb] in the summer.
[Ab] We should be living like we lived [F] that summer.
[Cm] I wanna live [C] like we lived [Eb] in the summer.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] But time _ is [F] _
[Ab] like the [Eb] ocean.
_ _ [Cm] You can only [Ab] hold a little in your hand.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] So we swim _ _ _ [Ab] before we're broken.
_ _ [Eb] Before [Cm] our bones become [Ab] black coral on the sand. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] We should be living [F] like we lived that summer.
[Cm] I wanna live [C] like we lived [Eb] in the summer.
[Ab] We should be living [F] like we lived that summer.
[Cm] I wanna live [D] like we lived [Eb] in the summer.
[Ab] We should be living [F] like we lived that summer.
[Cm] I wanna live [C] like we lived [Eb] in the summer.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Fm] So if I could bottle [Eb] up the same [F] breeze I would [Ab] take it over [Bb] to your house and [Eb] pour it loose through your garden.
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