SUMMER SHADOW – capo 4
So Fast So Maybe progression, E G C Am
Winter coat's gone now
Lost it through a sudden spring
Now a nimbler fox takes wing
I've got a very different song to sing

Too long I've been quiet
Disciplined and pure
My instinct to meet expectations was the most
Dangerous lure

(CHORUS ALSO)
Coming on out it's my summer shadow
Don't stop now, we got a ways to go
Up from the deep where your mind can't reach
Beyond everything you know

Coming on out it's my summer shadow
Emerging from the dark where you don't dare go
Watch the blood on my teeth glow in the moonlight
so now you know


I was a Good kid Nice kid followed the Rules
Thought I could have it All straight A's in Sunday School
ALone at ccD
Listened to the teacher Speak her anxieTY

Was she teaching us well?
Or were we all going straight to hell
we sailed the ark through stormy weather
Didn't think we could do much better

I got lost in the dogma
Vulpine believing I could turn canine
Hungry for flesh, thirsty for blood
Killing flamingos trapped in the mud

(CHORUS)
(CHORUS ALSO)
Coming on out it's my summer shadow
Won’t stop now, I got a ways to go
So many victims that I’ve yet to reach
Beyond everything they know

Coming on out it's my summer shadow
Starvation took me to a brand new low
Lick the blood off my teeth as they glow in the sunrise
so now they know


I let it all out
Silently because I didn't dare say
Viciousness I couldn't speak aloud
Muzzle still on tight, muzzle still on proud

And yet from somewhere inside me
The dove’s already been bled
That let me hide inside a bright view of the world
After all what I have instead

Now is a patch of shade
Keeping me away from the rays of light
Glow so strong they could turn a fox blind
What should I take, what should I leave behind?

(CHORUS)
(CHORUS ALSO)
Coming on out it's my summer shadow
Can't stop now, I got a ways to go
Up from the deep where no-one can teach me
Anything I know

Coming on out it's my summer shadow
Lost mid-day no place to go
Smelling dried blood on my teeth in the sunlight
When will I know

(One Round blank into plucked)
(Full chord plucks)
I see my white fur littering a den
Wet with death from a Fresh killed Robin by my
own Labor as I flip through the pages of a blood-stained
hymnal, Do me a favor

When I swing back
And dive in the snow
From black to white from day to night
Could you just forget could you let it go (x3)

(fancy fingerpluck)
See you after the fall
By then I'll have my white coat regrown after all
See you after the fall....Or not
because by then I'll blend in perfect after all
See you after the fall
By then I'll have my muzzle back on after all (x3)
(bar3, bar5 variant at the end)