And Springtime Followed Summer

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Year: 2002
Album: The Sky’s Awful Blue

INTRO

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VERSE 1

And

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springtime followed summer

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Nature’s stoic reproof

The

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hardened earth cracked hollow

By

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eager thorny shoots

There’ll

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be no hibernation

You’ll

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spend nights right here in your tracks

The

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churchmen are saying it wasn’t their fault

But they’ll

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fix the whole thing if they’re asked

CHORUS 1

We were

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out to cause explosions

A

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baying, mortgaged throng

Now the

G

answers breed like wolverines

And we

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burnt their right and wrong

Our

G

baseless paper money

Our own

C

hearts ruled out of bounds

I

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hit the road blaspheming

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Over-aged and slowing

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down

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And

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springtime followed summer

Some

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still have normality’s screen

There’s

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Santa Claus, sure, and there’s old folks’ homes

And

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cinnamon smells from kitchens scrubbed clean

They yell

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“war” to save the insurance

The

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meek fall on top of the wild

The

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weight will come off if you shrug hard enough

You

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might be survived by your child

CHORUS 2

She

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went with men for money

I

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begged her to hold my hand

We

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sauntered down the main street

As the

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birds flew forth and sang

We

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went to the four-star hotel

The

C

twenty-second

floor

The

G

light was dim but merry

As she

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set to work I roared

I

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wept with indignation

For the

C

life I’d almost had

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“Never mind,” she said to me

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“There’s time still left, maybe it

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won’t be so bad”

FADE

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