Summer Highland Falls Billy Joel

Summer Highland Falls

Billy Joel

Michael

198
0:00 3:16
Tuning Standard (E A D G B E)
Beat 4/4
Key: F
Capo:
No capo
Strumming 1

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Lyrics

[Intro]
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C |

[Verse 1]
Bb              F                     Am
  They say that these are not the best  of times
    Gm                    Bb          F    Am
But they're the only times  I've ever known
Gm
Bb        F                    Am          Gm
  And I believe there is a time  for meditation
     Bb                 C G
In cathedrals of our own

[Chorus]
C A/C#       Dm               C            Bb          F/A
  Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
    Gm                         C
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
                                          Gm
For we are always what our situations hand  us
            C         Bb        Eb/Bb Bb
It's either sadness or  euphoria

[Pre-Verse]
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C |

[Verse 2]
Bb         F                  Am
  So we'll argue and we'll compromise
    Gm           Bb             F      Am
And realize that nothing's ever changed
Gm Bb           F         Am
     For all our mutual experience
   Gm            Bb               C   G
Our  separate conclusions are the same

[Chorus]
C A/C#       Dm                 C          Bb  F/A
  Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
    Gm                         C
Our reason coexists with our insanity
                                      Gm
But now we choose between reality and madness
            C         Bb        Eb/Bb Bb
It's either sadness or  euphoria

[Solo]
| F - Am - | Gm - Bb - | Am - C - | Bb - - - |
| F - Am - | Gm - Bb - | C  - - - | -  - -

[Chorus]
A/C#    Dm               C             Bb      F/A
    How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
   Gm                                 C
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies
                                       Gm               C
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives With our re
             Bb      Eb/Bb
spective similarities
Bb                      F        Am
  It's either sadness or euphoria

[Outro]
       | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am |

Bars

[Intro]
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C |

[Verse 1]
                                  | Bb - -  - |
| F - Am - | Gm - Bb - | F - Am - | Gm - Bb - |
| F - Am - | Gm - Bb - | C - -  G |

They say that these are not the best  of times
But they're the only times  I've ever known
And I believe there is a time  for meditation
In cathedrals of our own

[Chorus]
                                       | C  - - A/C# |
| Dm - C - | Bb - - F/A | Gm - - -     | C  - - -    |
| -  - - - | Gm - C -   | Bb - - Eb/Bb | Bb - - -    |

Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand  us
It's either sadness or  euphoria

[Pre-Verse]
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C |

[Verse 2]
                                  | Bb - -  - |
| F - Am - | Gm - Bb - | F - Am - | Gm - Bb - |
| F - Am - | Gm - Bb - | C - -  G |

So we'll argue and we'll compromise
And realize that nothing's ever changed
For all our mutual experience
Our  separate conclusions are the same

[Chorus]
                                       | C  - - A/C# |
| Dm - C - | Bb - - F/A | Gm - - -     | C  - - -    |
| -  - - - | Gm - C -   | Bb - - Eb/Bb | Bb - - -    |

Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason coexists with our insanity
But now we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or  euphoria

[Solo]
| F - Am - | Gm - Bb - | Am - C - | Bb - - - |
| F - Am - | Gm - Bb - | C  - - - | -  - -

[Chorus]
                                                 A/C# |
| Dm - C  - | Bb - - F/A | Gm - - -     | C  - - -    |
| -  - -  - | Gm - C -   | Bb - - Eb/Bb | Bb - - -    |
| F  - Am - |

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives With our re
spective similarities
It's either sadness or euphoria

[Outro]
       | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am | Gm Bb | Am C | Bb - |
| F Am |

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