Standard tuning 
 
capo 5 

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so easily I forgot lifting 
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the sandbox in Arizona and catching 
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the geckos and keeping them as pets 
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in a halloween candy's jack-o-lantern 
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their tails would fall clear from their bodies 
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and we'd shriek and we'd run from them 
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keep on playing 
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playing 
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my sister 

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she is with me 
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even when we are apart 
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we were wading through the water 
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flashlights flickering in the dark 
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climbing the laundry post in the tomato garden 
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spying on the neighbors swimming 
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laughing 
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we were laughing 
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that night 

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in Maine I met my best friend 
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talking til 7am 
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realizing we were both afraid of the notion 
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of having our brains be in the body of a whale 
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in the ocean deep where the light don't reach 
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and I loved him instantly 
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I knew we would keep talking 
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talking 
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on that drive 

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up the winding mountain roads 
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from Hudson to Vermont in the season's first 
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snow, the boys asleep in the back of the car 
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we were in the front we were singing along 
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to every word of the songs that helped make us who we are 
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at the top of our lungs 
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singing 
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singing 
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my mother 

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my mother she keeps a journal 
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of her childhood memories as they return 
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my favorite's the story recounting when she 
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saw an eagle with a fish in its mouth 
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she was ten and she wrote it down 
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there's a sweetness in us that lives long past the dust 
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on our eyes once our eyes finally close 

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