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When I was young, lying  in the grass

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I felt so safe in  a warming bath

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Of sunlight

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Of sunlight

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The vast open sky could do no harm

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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

-3”   3   -2” -3” 3  -2”   -1  2 -2”

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

-1 1 1

anymore.

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It disappeared at the same speed

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As the idealistic things I believed

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When the optimist died inside of   meeeee

-3”  3 -2”   -1  2 -2”

No sunlight, no sunlight (x2)

[REPEAT THIS VERSE ONCE MORE]

-3”  3 -2”   -1  -3” -2”

no sunlight, no sunlight.

-3”  3 -2”   -1  2 -2”

no sunlight, no sunlight. (x2)

-3”  3 -2”

No sunlight,

-1 1 1

anymore.