That Summer

Tom: G

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1.   I went to work for her that summer, a teenage kid so far from home,
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    she was a lonely widow woman, hell bent to make it on her own.
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    We were a thousands miles from nowhere,
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    wheat fields as far as I could see,
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    both needing something from eachother,
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    not knowing yet what that might be.
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2. Till she came to me one evening, hot cup of coffee and a smile,
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    in a dress that I was certain she hadn't worn in quite a while.
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    There was a difference in her laughter,
                                Em
    there was a softness in her eyes,
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    and on the air there was a hunger,      even a boy could recognize.
                                         
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She had a need to feel the thunder,
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to chase the lightning from the sky,
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to watch the storm and all it's wonders raging in her lovers eyes.
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She had to ride the heat of passion,       like a comet burning bright,
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rushing headlong in the wind, out where only dreams have been,
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burning both ends of the night.
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3. That summer wind was all around me,
                               Em
    nothing between us but the night,
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    and when I told her that I'd never,
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    she softly whispered, "That's alright!"
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    And then I watched her hands of leather turn to velvet in a touch,
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    there's never been another summer,
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    when I have ever learned so much. 
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    + REFRAIN (We ..........eachother ..........we)
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4. I often think about that summer,
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    the sweat, the moonlight and the lace,
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    and I have rarely held another, when I haven't seen her face.
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    And everytime I pass a wheat field,
                               Em
    and watch it dancing in the wind,
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    although I know it isn't real,
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    I just can't help but feel her hungry arms again.   + REFRAIN 
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    rushing headlong in the wind, out where only dreams have been,
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    burning both ends of the night.