Summer, Highland Falls

SUMMER HIGHLAND FALLS     BILLY JOEL

KEY OF F


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They say that these are not the best of times,

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But they're the on-ly times i've ev-er known,

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And I be-lieve there is a time for 

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med-i-ta-tion in ca-the-drals of our own.

Verse 2

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Now I have seen that sad sur-ren-der 

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in my lov-er's eyes,

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And I can on-ly stand a-part and sym-pa-thize.

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For we are al-ways what our 

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sit-u-a-tions hand us

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It's eith-er sad-ness or eu-phor-i-a  

VERSE 2 same as 1
So we’ll argue and we compromise,
And realize that nothing's ever changed,
For all our mutual experience our separate 
conclusions are the same.

Verse 4 same as 2
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity,
Our reason co-exists with our insanity.
And though we choose between reality and madness...
It's either sadness or euphoria.

VERSE 5 same as 2
How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies.
And so we'll stand upon the ledges of our lives,
With our respective similarities...
It's either sadness or euphoria