Father And Son - Cat Stevens

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[Intro] (x3)
  
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[Verse 1]
             
It's not time 

             
to make a chan

             
ge, just relax

              
 and take it e


asy
             
You're still y

              
oung that's yo

   
ur fault
            
there's so muc

              
h you have to 


know
             
Find a girl, s

             
ettle down, if

             
 you want to, 

        
you can marry
             
Look at me, I 

            
am old, but I'

        
m happy
             
I was once lik

           
e you are now,

             
 and I know th

            
at it's not ea


sy
             
to be calm, wh

            
en you've foun

              
d something go

        
ing on
              
But take your 

             
time, think a 

           
lot, why think

             
 of everything

        
 you've got
             
For you will s

              
till be here t

            
omorrow, but y

             
our dreams may

 
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[Chorus]
             
How can I try 

            
to explain?  w

             
hen I do he tu

           
rns away again
             
it's always be

            
en the same, s

              
ame old story
             
From the momen

            
t I could talk

             
 I was ordered

    
 to listen
              
now there's a 

           
way and I know

          
 I have to go 

away
            
and I know I h

       
ave to go

  
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    (x2)

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    (x2)

[Verse 2]
             
It's not time 

             
to make a chan

             
ge, just sit d

              
own and take i

  
t slowly
             
You're still y

              
oung, that's y

    
our fault, 
            
there's so muc

              
h you have to 


go through
             
Find a girl, s

             
ettle down, if

             
 you want to y

       
ou can marry
             
Look at me, I 

            
am old, but I'

       
m happy

[Chorus]
             
All the times 

            
that I cried, 

             
keeping all th

           
e things I kne

w inside
             
It's hard, but

            
 it's harder t

           
o ignore it
             
If they were r

            
ight, I'd agre

             
e, but it's th

              
em they know, 


not me
              
Now there's a 

           
way, and I kno

             
w that I have 

   
to go away
            
I know I have 

   
to go