Winter Solstice

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Baby shoes on the sidewalk
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       F
They're playing hopscotch in the 
dents we left in the concrete
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Never wore those moccasins you got 
me for my birthday
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Wasted all the gift card money on 
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toys and games and other things 
     G
that break


[Chorus]
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Even then I sensed an emptiness in 
winter
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When the creek froze in December, I
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 could feel myself getting older
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Maybe it was the soft decay, 
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brittle branches finally breaking
That showed me time outside my 
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understanding


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[Verse 2]
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It's not like Michigan in spring
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When they find the kids who went 
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out wandering and didn't make it 
home
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Still I feel a little death in 
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the shorter days, when dinner's on 
the table
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Getting cold and no one cares to 
              G
pick up the plates


[Chorus]
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Even now I see the dollhouse, 
perfect still
In all its little ways, though it 
C
exists I cannot place it
G                    F
And I witnessed its decay, solace 
healing when it caved in
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When I go back, I have to dig it 
        G
out from ruin


[Otro]
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Little boots turning up when snow 
washes away
    F
Got power tools in the truck for the
 elusive someday
       C
We can sweep the streets, clean it 
up
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But everything that's coming up was
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 supposed to have gone away