My Antonia

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[Verse 1]
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I imagine you in a place wide open and beautiful
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Where the sun sets wildly over the horizon,
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In the moment you learned we can't concentrate on everything,
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Though it breaks your heart as strongly as you'd like to.

[Verse 2]
      D                     B                    E               G
These sun bleached memories see you stand on the beach aside the ocean,
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Underneath the clouds above the badlands.

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I see your picture like a still frame standing strongly beneath the sun,
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When it was you, me and no one but the ghosts we shared.
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Though there was always talk, we could have lived without it,
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Though we'd come to doubt it, always surrounded by it.
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And for whatever lost, there were the hundred things we'd learned.
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To the point of no return we would stand by it.

[Verse 3]
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And I imagine you like all that's pure left in America,
    E                       G        D
The red grass prairies, the Niobrara river.
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Though in the moment you learned we can't concentrate on everything,
         E            G       D
You will always be my Antonia Shimerda.