Key: C
Introduction: C Am F G
C Am F G
Saw you in the distance, just a shadow of a shape,
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something about the way you stood, I couldn&rsquo t look away,
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I shook your hand, so pleased to meet you, we walked and talked for miles,
F G C Am
wondering what this might become, and then I saw that smile,
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dinner at eight tomorrow, what was waiting for me there?
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anticipation on my breath, caught inside,
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love&rsquo s snare,
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staring out the window, streets are racing by,
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wipers slowly keeping time under a rainy twilight sky,
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a shadow in the mist, takes me back such a long while,
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dreaming out the window, when I think of you I smile.
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different dreams, different paths, life&rsquo s plan took us separate ways,
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wondering what you&rsquo re doing now, would we ever,
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meet again,
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saw her in the distance, just a shadow of a shape,
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something about the way she stood, I couldn&rsquo t look away,
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looking at this younger you, standing by the shore,
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then I saw that smile I first saw, too many years before.
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I shook her hand, so pleased to meet you have your mother&rsquo s smile,
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smile as warm as sunshine, we walked and talked,
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walked and talked for miles,
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saw you in the distance, just a shadow of a shape,
C Am F G
something about the way you stood, I couldn&rsquo t look away.
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a trace of mist, just out of reach, as I&rsquo m standing with closed eyes,
F G C Am
dreaming of so long ago, when I think of you I smile,
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I take your hand, pull you close, remembering that first kiss,
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turn around, you&rsquo re standing there, a vision,
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in the mist, just out of reach as I&rsquo m standing with closed eyes,
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dreaming of so long ago, when I think of you,
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I smile, when I think of you,
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I smi-ile,
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when I think of you.