Summer I Read Colette

The other chords are as you would expect. Intro        ....repeated. Verse 0ne. That was the summer that followed the spring Sad anniversary of a thousand old things                       bass     I was letting them go. The words of Colette amd a strange new perfume Were drenching my senses and filling the room The heat in our bodies the light in our eyes First the surrender and then we could fly We were letting it go.   (chorus) We’re blinded to the beauty in our own lives But I was taking all that I could get For five or six hours in the month of July ......The summer I read Colette. (Repeat intro then into verse two) The time was a line and we learned how to crawl Our bones were a prison and our memory involved If it weren’t for the past I’d feel nothing at all Now I’m letting it go. It’s more than survival the lesson in hand For I found salvation was quite a surprise That was the summer that followed the spring A new way of feeling a million old things. (chorus)                  (**Bass note run up And I found Paris one hundred years late            bass         bass Colette is sleeping in Pere Lachaise My ear to the stone                                        bass                      (**Bass note run down    ) I could hear her saying ’Nous nous reveillons’ Em....then back to intro....Instrumental... I sold my silver to get myself there To a room with a candle up three flights of stairs. That was the summer I let it all go To fill up my body with my heart and my soul. (chorus) Notes. Pere Lachaise is the big cemetary in Paris and ’nous nous reveillons’ means ’we will wake up’. I could have misheard some of the words.  They aren’t printed on the cd cover so be careful.    If this seems confusing listen to the cd a couple of times and the chords and bass runs should make sense.