Key: G
Introduction:
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You colour me in gold
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Lips like petals on my throat
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And those fingertips like paintbrush strokes
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Paper boats softly float like a song we wrote
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But summer comes and summer goes
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You change your hair, you change your clothes
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The books you read help you explore
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The world that you believed in once before
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You colour me in gold
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Kiss the freckles on my nose
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With those blood red pomegranate lips taking sips, hand on hip
A
Your face could launch a thousand ships
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But winter comes and brings the snow
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You change your job, you change your home
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Still reading books about the ghost of a world you can't be living anymore
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And after all, you've been nothing but good to me
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And the only way that I can pay you back
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Is to daily seek those distant memories
A
While I'm standing next to you
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So when spring time comes and blossoms grow
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Come take my hand, can we expose
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The hideaways, the hidden doors, the stories we believed in
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(Oh, oh) the land that we both dreamed in
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Once before (oh)
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You colour me in gold