For Amy
           Copyright 2002 Stephen Savitzky.  CC by-nc-sa/4.0.

   C                    Am
I sometimes have spoken about you
       F                     G
But I never did write you a song;
C                             G
You know that I never forgot you,
           F                            C
Though between us the years have grown long,
                            F
So now after all that I've been through,
     Dm                           Em
the heartache, the laughter, the tears,
     C                    F C  G
I'm singing a song for my Amethyst Rose
       G          F  C G  C
Who's waited for so many years.


          F                     Am
    The flowers of summer are shattered
            Dm                          Em
    Their stems wrapped in shadow and frost, 
           C                             G
    Their leaves and their petals wind-scattered,
       Dm                     Am
    Reminders of all we have lost;
        F                     C
    But one stands with blossom unbroken,
        F                        G
    No matter what bitter wind blows,
        C                      F
    Of love and remembrance a token,
       G         F C  G    C
    Forever, for Amethyst Rose.

           C                      Am
Though you never were more than a shadow
F                          G
Stillborn before you could live
           C                         G
Still I've always been drawn to your darkness--
     F                         C
Even shadows have something to give.
    C                            F
And whenever my dreams have been shattered,
    Dm                           Em
And sift through my fingers like sand
     C                  F C  G
It's then I remember my Amethyst Rose
    G             F   C   G  C
And dream you are holding my hand.



          F                     Am
    The flowers of summer are shattered
            Dm                          Em
    Their stems wrapped in shadow and frost, 
           C                             G
    Their leaves and their petals wind-scattered,
       Dm                     Am
    Reminders of all we have lost;
        F                     C
    But one stands with blossom unbroken,
        F                        G
    No matter what bitter wind blows,
        C                      F
    Of love and remembrance a token,
       G         F C  G    C
    Forever, for Amethyst Rose.

  C                    Am
I dream of a petrified forest
    F                       G
And gaze at a stone, silent glade
      C                         G
Where one crystal flower stands blooming,
    F                             C
Her stems and her leaves of green jade;
                        F
Obsidian thorns keen as sorrow,
         Dm                      Em
But when I've been forgotten for years,
      C                         F C  G
Still there in the twilight my  Amethyst Rose
        G            F  C     G  C
Will be blooming, untarnished by tears.


          F                     Am
    The flowers of summer are shattered
            Dm                          Em
    Their stems wrapped in shadow and frost, 
           C                             G
    Their leaves and their petals wind-scattered,
       Dm                     Am
    Reminders of all we have lost;
        F                     C
    But one stands with blossom unbroken,
        F                        G
    No matter what bitter wind blows,
        C                      F
    Of love and remembrance a token,
       G         F C  G    C
    Forever, for Amethyst Rose.


Amethyst Rose
was our second child, stillborn August 4th, 1990.  Her memorial page can be
found here.


Online:
    http://Steve.Savitzky.net/Songs/for-amy/lyrics.chords.txt

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