3  -3” -3   5   -3” -3” -3  4    3

When I was young, lying  in the grass

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I felt so safe in  a  warming bath

5   -4  4

Of sunlight

-3” -3  4

Of sunlight

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The vast   open sky could do no harm

 3  -3”  -3 5  -3” -3” -3  4    4

Like an embrace of  a mother’s arms

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In sunlight, in sunlight [2x]

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With every year that came to pass

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More clouds appeared til the sky went black

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And there was no sunlight, no sunlight. (x2)

-3” 3 3

anymore.

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It disappeared at the same speed

3   3   6 6 5 -4    4   -4  3  3

As the idealistic things I believed

 3    3   6 6 5    -4   4 -4  4  5 -4 4

When the optimist died inside of meeeee

5   -4  4   -3”  -3 4

No sunlight, no sunlight (x2)

[REPEAT THIS VERSE ONCE MORE]

5   -4  4   -3”   5  4

no sunlight, no sunlight.

5   -4  4   -3”  -3 4

no sunlight, no sunlight. (x2)

5   -4  4

No sunlight,

-3” 3 3

anymore.