Paul Simon – Everything About It Is A Love Song (Guitar)

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Locked in a struggle for the right combination

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of words in a melody line

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I took a walk along the riverbank

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of my imagination

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Golden clouds were shuffling the sunshine

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But if I ever get back to the twentieth century

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Guess I'll have to pay off some debts

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Open the book of my vanishing memory

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With its catalogue of regrets

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Stand up for the deeds I did

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And those I didn't do

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Sit down, shut up, think about God

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And wait for the hour of my rescue

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We don't mean to mess things up

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But mess them up we do

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And then it's "Oh, I'm sorry"

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Here's a smiling photograph of love it was new

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At a birthday party

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Make a wish and close your eyes:

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surprise, surprise, surprise.

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Early December, and brown as a sparrow

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Frost creeping over the pond

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I shoot a thought into the future

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And it flies like an arrow

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Through my lifetime, and beyond

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If I ever come back as a tree, or a crow

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Or even the wind-blown dust

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Find me on the ancient road

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in the song when the wires are hushed

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Hurry on and remember me,

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as I'll remember you

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Far above the golden clouds,

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the darkness vibrates

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The earth is blue

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And everything about it is a love song

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And everything about it is a love song

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Everything about it

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And everything about it is a love song