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she smiled in a big way, the way a girl like that smiles
Fm# D
when the world is hers and she held your eyes
A E Fm# D
out in the breezeway down by the shore in the lazy summer
A E Fm# D
and she pulled you in, and she bit your lip, and she made you hers
A E
Fm# D
she looked deep into you as you lay together quiet in the grasp of dusk and summer
A E
but you've already lost
Fm# D
but you've already lost
A E
but you've already lost
Fm# D
when you only had barely enough to hang on
A E
and she combed your hair, and she kissed your teeth
Fm# D
and she made you better than you'd been before
A E
D
she told you bad things you wished you could change in the lazy summer
A E
Fm# D
and she told you, laughing down to her core, so she would not cry as she lay in your lap
A E
Fm# D
she said "nobody here can live forever, quiet in the grasp of dusk and summer"
A E
but you've already lost
Fm# D
but you've already lost
A E
but you've already lost
Fm# D
when you only had barely enough to hang on
E E
she said, "no one is alone the way you are alone"
E
A
and you held her looser than you would have if you ever could have known
A E
some things tie your life together, slender threads and things to treasure
Fm# E
days like that should last and last and last
A E
but you've already lost
Fm# D
but you've already lost
A E
but you've already lost
Fm# D
when you only had barely enough to hang on
