The Living Years Cifras

During the verse, you can do an Ab, Absus4, Absus2, into Db, Ab/Db, listen to the song.
 
Ab Gm Bbm Eb7      Ab
 
Ab
Every generation
Db
Blames the one before
     Ab
And all of their frustrations
     Db
Come beating on your door
 
 
   Gb6
I know that I'm a prisoner
 
To all my Father held so dear
   Bbm
I know that I'm a hostage
 
To all his hopes and fears
          Eb7                                           Ab
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
 
 
Ab
Crumpled bits of paper
Db
Filled with imperfect thought
Ab
Stilted conversations
     Db
I'm afraid that's all we've got
 
 
    Gb6
You say you just don't see it
 
He says it's perfect sense
     Bbm
You just can't get agreement
 
In this present tense
      Eb7
We all talk a different language
                Ab
Talking in defense
 
 
        Ab                      Db
Say it loud, say it clear
             Bbm      Eb7               Ab
You can listen as well as you hear
        Ab                      Db
It's too late when we die
             Bbm      Eb7               Ab
To admit we don't see eye to eye
 
 
 
So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts
 
So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fat
It may have a new perspective
On a different date
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be O.K.
 
CHORUS
 
I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
 
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
 
CHORUS
FADE OUT
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