Girl By The Lake

	  		MAX STALLING - GIRL BY THE LAKE - ONE OF THE WAYS 
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NO CAPO 

G             C           G                      D 
The picture I have is you standing in front of a lake 
G                                C 
There’s sun on your face and you’re smiling a way 
     G            D       G 
That really gives nothing away 

Just judging by the shadows, it’s noon or maybe one or two 
You’ve got the rest of the day and your whole life to play 
And the world is waiting on you 

But I really just can’t remember the night that you went away 
It happened so fast, so long in the past 
G                    D           G 
Did I ever know this girl by the lake?  
Did I even know the girl by the lake?  

Chorus: 
C             G           D           G 
To live is to fly and I’m learning to try 
C                  G          D 
But sometimes it’s all such a chore 
C                     G        D                G 
If the breeze doesn’t come and clouds block the sun 
C                  G         D 
You’ve got to work harder to soar 

We’re all here just a dancing like we know what we are trying to do 
But the fact is you can’t so you dance and you dance 
Keep on moving till the music is through 

There’s nothing that says that you have to, no rules that say you must 
And what may seem unfair is just fates way of daring  
Us all to learn how to trust 

It’s sun on a butterfly’s wings stretching them out to dry 
And a breeze to help with the chore 
But if the breeze doesn’t come and clouds block the sun 
You’ve got to work harder to soar.  

Well the picture I have is you standing in front of a lake  
And you smiling a way that gives nothing away 
Did I ever know this girl by the lake?  
Did I even know the girl by the lake?