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Shades of Summer

from Desolation Sound by Luke Maynard

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14. Shades of Summer

If I should tell you the shades of summer
I’ve seen welling in her eyes,
I think you’d realize you ‘d have to hold her tight
And never let her go

I hope you never know the shades of summer
Softly blooming in her voice.
You wouldn’t have a choice,
You’d have to keep her close
And tell her to be true.

If I could tell you the shades of Summer
I’ve felt tangled in her hair,
I think you’d have to care;
You’d beg her timid heart
To let you come inside.

And so I have to hide the shades of summer
I’ve seen flashing in her dance.
I wouldn’t have a chance;
you’d fill her heart with joy
And never set her free.

But in her dreams she dreams of knives,
Of knives and of shadows long,
We are fools with foolish lives
But it seems we have in dreams
A “shadow life” where nothing’s wrong,
Nothing’s ever wrong…

If she could tell you the shades of summer
She’s been painting in her mind,
I think that she might find
Another colour made for painting in the shade.

It never should be said that shades of summer
Never fade and never bleed,
Or that they never need
to hear their names aloud,
To know that they were seen.

In her dreams she dreams of knives,
My knives and my shadows long,
We are fools with foolish lives,
But it seems we have in dreams
A “shadow life” where nothing’s wrong,
Nothing’s ever wrong…

If I should tell you the shades of summer
Softly blooming in her voice.
You wouldn’t have a choice,
You’d have to keep her close
And tell her to be true
(to you).

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from Desolation Sound, released June 30, 2018
All vocals & instruments by Luke Maynard
Written by Luke Maynard

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Luke Maynard Toronto, Ontario

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, old-school Canadian acoustic troubaour, and all-purpose sonic roustabout.

Loitering around the upper frets since 1996.

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