Key: G
Introduction:
G
I promised you I'm never giving up
Never giving up, never giving up
D
I won't give in
G
But now that my body's giving up
D
My legs are giving out my head is throwing up its hands, it's asking
Em
Can we wait for the summer again?
G
Can we hold out for summer again?
Em D
Can we ever be whole again?
Bridge
G C G
It's how we start over (starting over)
Em G C G
It's how we start, it's how we start over
G C G
It's how we start over (starting over)
Em G C G
It's how we start, it's how we start over
verse 1
Em D G D
My old house, my childhood's tomb
Em C G D
It is a failing light, but it will come back soon
Em D G D
A candle burns in your old room
Em C G D
And before it goes out, I swear I will find you
verse 2
Em D G D
My little sister I was two
Em C G D
The year that you were born, and Ben came after you
Em D G D
We all three shared gentle youth
Em C G D
Our mother combed our hair, our father cleaned our wounds
verse 3
Em D G D
Then a small thing happened or sunk its tooth
Em C G D
And I was left behind, in different shapes you move
Em D G D
In my peripheral sight I reach out for you
Em C G D
But when I turn my head I'm in an empty room
verse 4
Em D G D
A faceless clock, the hands unmoved
Em C G D
But for a layer of dust, a cobweb or two
Em D G D
In a broken mirror I see my broken truths
Em C G D
Now when I comb my hair, I pull the gray ones loose
Verse 5
Em D G D
My old house my childhood's tomb
Em C G D
It is a failing light, but it will come back soon
Em D G D
In the backyard, birds, a dogwood blooms
Em C G D
I will come back home, I will wait for you
Outro
Em G
I will wait for the summer (wait for the summer)
C G
I will hold out for summer (hold out for summer)
Em G
I will wait for the summer (wait for the summer)
C G
I will hold out for summer (hold out for summer)
Em
I will wait, there's a promised land
G C D G
In every man's heart, there is a summer