Mike and the Mechanics

The Living Years

Mike and the Mechanics

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The Living Years

Written by BA Robertson/Mike Rutherford

	  		
Intro: G F#m Am D G 

G                             C 
Every generation, blames the one before  
        G                                                 C                                        
And all of their frustrations come beating on your door   
F   
I know that I a prisoner to all my father held so deer  
Am 
I know that I a hostage to all his hopes and fears 
D 
I just wish I could have told him in the living years. 

Crumpled bits of paper, filled with imperfect thoughts  
Stilted conversations I afraid that all we got 
You say you just don see it; He says its perfect sense 
You just can get agreement in this present tense 
We all talk a different language, talking in defence. 

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G C Am D G So Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear It too late when we die to admit we don see eye to eye
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So we open up a quarrel, between the present and the past, We only sacrifice the future; It the bitterness that lasts So don yield to the fortunes you sometimes see as fate, It may have a new perspective on a different day And if you don give up, and don give in you just might be OK Chorus I wasn there that morning when my father passed away I didn get to tell him all the things I had to say I think I caught his spirit later that same year, I sure I heard his echo in my baby new born tears. I just wish I could have told him in the living years. Chorus X 2
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