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G            Em          C          G
Allow me to exaggerate a memory or two
      G        D/F#   Em    
Where summer's lasted longer than
C               D
Longer than we do
     C       Em      G
When nothing really mattered
           C             Em
Except for me to be with you
       C       Em    D
But in time we all forgot and
        G    
We all grew
     C                 Em
Your melody sounds as sweet
       D                 G
As the first time it was sung
        C     Em        G             D
With a little bit more character for show
            C                 Em
And by the time your father's heard
   Am
Of all the wrong you've done
         C       Em       Am   G
Then I'm putting out the lantern
           D            G
Find your own way back home
   G             Em
If I've forgotten how to sing
C                     G
Before I've sung this song
     G             Em
I'll write it all across this wall
 C                D
Before my job is done
         C    Em         G
And I'll even have the courtesy
    C              Em
Of admitting I was wrong
       C     Em     D                  G
As the final words before I'm dead and gone
             C         Em
You've never been so divine
     D             G
In accepting your defeat
         C     Em        G             D
And I've never been more scared to be alone
     C          Em             Am
If love is not enough to put my enemies to sleep
         C       Em      Am      G
Then I'm putting out the lantern
          D            G
Find your own way back home