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The Summer Thief

by Brant Satala

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The wine should have stayed in the bottle And I should have just walked away And left you there At your front door Let the days pass us by like I never cared to know Nineteen seventy something Songs more compelling than the wine You moved over to me Like a picture were our feet Touching and bare, where we sat on the floor And I would not guess if that night meant to you Like it might have meant something to me But the way that you kissed me, there was something you knew Forgive me if this is not true And I’ll try to forget about you. The wine should have stayed in the bottle But I couldn’t just walk away From a sound I thought I heard Somewhere under your words Between both our lips Like someone you never met, but you missed Bridge: And so I’m left guessing And I thought I knew Should be nothing to me What’s nothing to you And maybe you’ll write me But never to send No second thoughts, I don’t dare to pretend And now I’m left guessing And wondering why The wine should have stayed in the bottle But here are you are guessing what you already knew The music was good You stayed `cause you could But sometimes It’s better this way And I just don’t know if that night meant to you Like it might have meant something to me In the way that I kissed you, and you kissed me too You probably already knew That I should try to forget about you
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And I know I won’t see you again I just need to let it go What grew so well in the early summer Is now buried in the snow And I know I won’t kiss you again Feel the pressing of your mouth After falling with you so far up I’ve had to walk myself back down I understand what you are saying I understand what you’ve been through And what time will heal I thought that we had jumped together You caught yourself before the fall Too late for me Just not time for this to be (Hook is over D#add9 and Gm11 ) (hook x2) I tried to free you from your tangles You tried to tell me they were chains And in the storm of my denial I watched us rusting in the rains Bridge: You said that you’d like to run to me Would you have come if I’d said no We made this real and now it’s gone It’s done, it may be over But is it ever really over I understand what you are saying I understand what you’ve been through And time it takes to heal I thought that we had jumped together You caught yourself before the fall Too late for me Just not time I understand what you are saying I understand what you’ve been through The time it takes to heal What did you really think would happen I don’t know why it’s been so hard For me to see Just not time for this to be I am not what you need, It’s just not time for this to be
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As the rain came down I pulled her close and kissed her The taste of Spring had faded from her lips With that farewell touch She stole from me the summer And left me with a tempest in it’s place The window is open And I have been hoping That she’d come through And give it back to me (hold C) June, July and August Hung like wind chimes in a storm And rang as loud as broken wedding bells When the fruit is gone to ripen I will climb up in that tree Was a bitter fruit to Adam, but the kiss of Eve so sweet The window is open And I have been hoping That she’d come through And give it back to me The door is closing And time is frozen The blame is all on the Summer thief Well, she’s wandered away She took the sun She took the stars She took the universe, and left me in the dark She's only running from herself and won't get far The window is open And I have been hoping That she’d come through And give it back to me The door is closing And time is frozen The blame is all on the Summer thief (Ooooo ooo ooo x1) The door is closing And time is frozen The blame is all on the summer thief (Ooo ooo ooo out)
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Passengers 03:23
I packed up my suitcase And headed to the garage I sit inside the car and drive Without the engine on The lightbulb in the ceiling Has now become the moon I’ve come to pick you up again Could never come too soon It’s true that you were never one To hitchhike in the midnight sun But I can tell you, rest assured I’m glad you are my passenger Cause I am just a passenger with you By streets signs in the kitchen And stop lights in the halls We’ve been on roads so far from home It’s easy to get lost A billboard up on the stairway A girl who looks like you I’ve passed that sign a thousand times It means we’ll be home soon It’s true that we were never ones To hitchhike in the midnight sun But you believe me, take my word I’m glad you are my passenger Cause I am just a passenger with you (Instrumental break) It’s true that we were never ones To hitchhike in the midnight sun But you believe me, take my word I’m glad you are my passenger Cause I am just a passenger with you
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How long can I take this? This siege on my heart The gates to my fortress have always been open There’s no need to starve me out My soldiers have all turned against me My guard has abandoned his post And you, the good news, never came through the lines When I needed some good news the most If love turns like wheel Does a chance come back around again? I’ve been spinning so much, and I want you to win But I want you to spin back to me If love turns like a wheel A ghost of a lover you once were A ghost of a man who was me Sometimes I think their returning together For a semblance of peace But the roads in the dark keep on changing And there’s precious little to tell And all I can do is surrender to time Though it sometimes puts me through Hell If love turns like wheel Does a chance come back around again? I’ve been spinning so much, and I want you to win But I want you to spin back to me If love turns like a wheel Bridge: Holding on like a tattered sail in a storm (Tearing to pieces in the wind and the waves) I never want you to feel lost and alone (I could carry you over this ocean) I will carry you home If love turns like wheel Does a chance come back around again? I’ve been spinning so much, and I want you to win But I want you to spin back to me If love turns like a wheel Love, turn like a wheel And you Turn back to me Been spinning so much That I want you to spin back to me If love turns like a wheel
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The Reverie 04:04
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Milkweed 04:02
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released February 28, 2012

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