Intro: AEAEA
Maybe you talk too high, man.
EA
Maybe I talk too slow.
EC#m
But you've got to live a little bit faster
F#A
'cause you've got a little less time to go.
EAEA
I ain't lost and I ain't searching,
EA
but then you know me very well.
EB/D#
And I can't change the wind
C#m
and make it blow the other way.
F#mAE
I'm a fool and I can tell...
F#B
... that I'm alive and that's all,
F#B
that I can get up just as fast as I fall.
F#B
And I can walk and run but I'll never crawl.
F#B
And in the end it doesn't matter at all.
EA
I don't know about the peo ple
BA
that I read about in books.
EA
And the kings and queens around my room
BA
with their quiet and dirty looks.
EAB
I know I should be go ing somewhere,
A
I just can't arrive.
EA
There's a reason for believ ing
E
that I've never been alive.
EA
Alive.
AEAEA
I ain't lost and I ain't searching,
EA
but then you know me very well.
EB/D#
And I can't change the world
C#m
and make it go the other way.
F#AE
I'm a fool and I can tell...
F#B
... that I'm alive and that's all,
F#B
that I can get up just as fast as I fall.
F#B
And I can walk and run but I'll never crawl.
F#B
And in the end it doesn't matter at all.
EA
I don't know about the peo ple
BA
that I read about in books.
EA
And the kings and queens around my room
BA
with their quiet and dirty looks.
EAB
I know I should be go ing somewhere,
A
I just can't arrive.
EA
There's a reason for believ ing
E
that I've never been alive.
EA/E
I know I should be go ing somewhere,
B/D#A
I just can't arrive.
EA
There's a reason for believ ing
B7A
that I've never been alive.
EAE
Alive, alive.
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