Before My Time

Intro
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G               Am 
I stood in the shadow 
C           G/B       Am 
Between the night and down 
G                     Am 
And I walked like the candle 
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And dreamed away the dawn 

C               Bm 
Before the final curtain fell 
C 
Across my weary eyes 
C                  Bm 
Im sure I saw the ghost of truth 
D 
At least a thousand times 



G               Am 
And all that I defended 
C           G/B   Am 
Within the prison walls 
G               Am 
Was captured or surrendered 
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I watched the banners fall 

C                     Bm 
And stumbling blindly through the flame 
D               Bm 
I fell into the sea 
C               Bm 
And drifted out upon the waves 
D 
Into eternity 



G               Am 
But somehow I remembered 
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When all the stars had flown 
G                 Am 
Hidden pines, the royal sky 
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The palms came tumbling home 

C               Bm 
To glorify the prison walls 
D                     Bm 
They tried so hard to climb 
C                  Bm 
Never knowing that for them all 
D 
The prison is the mind 



G                  Am 
And now I know the story 
C        G/B       Am 
Before I turn the page 
G                      Am 
The games I played for glory 
C             G/B      Am 
Have vanished with the age 

C               Bm 
And I can only love you now 
D                  Bm 
And you can do the same 
C                        Bm 
For I have learned that love somehow 
D 
Will brush away the pain 


Outro
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