Capo I to play along at:
https://youtu.be/NhLQT-TvahQ

[Intro]
         
   

[Verse]
             
Locked in a st

          
ruggle for the

 right combina

tion
  
of words in a 

melody line
             
I took a walk 

             
along the rive

 
rbank

of my imaginat

ion
            
Golden clouds 

             
were shuffling

      
 the sunshine

[Verse]
             
But if I ever 

              
get back to th

            
e twentieth ce

ntury
             
Guess I'll hav

              
e to pay off s

      
ome debts
             
Open the book 

              
of my vanishin

   
g memory
             
With its catal

              
ogue of regret

    
s
             
Stand up for t

           
he deeds I did
             
And those I di

        
dn't do
             
Sit down, shut

              
 up, think abo

   
ut God
    
And wait for t

he hour of my 

rescue

[Instrumental]
Cm (12 BEATS)
Ab (12 BEATS)

[Verse]

We don't mean 

to mess things

 up

But mess them 

up we do
            
And then it's 

 
"Oh, I'm sorry

"

Here's a smili

ng photograph 

of love it was

 new
     
At a birthday 

party

Make a wish an

d close your e

yes:

surprise, surp

rise, surprise

.
      

[Verse]
            
Early December

          
, and brown as

             
 a sparrow
            
Frost creeping

          
 over the pond
          
I shoot a thou

              
ght into the f

    
uture
            
And it flies l

       
ike an arrow
            
Through my lif

            
etime, and bey


ond

[Verse]
            
If I ever come

              
 back as a tre

        
e, or a crow
            
Or even the wi

          
nd-blown dust
            
Find me on the

       
 ancient road
            
in the song wh

            
en the wires a

   
re hushed
            
Hurry on and r

      
emember me,
              
as I'll rememb

     
er you

Far above the 

golden clouds,

the darkness v

ibrates
            
The earth is b

      
lue

[Outro]
            
And everything

              
 about it is a

         
 love song
                      
            
And everything

              
 about it is a

         
 love song
            
Everything abo

          
ut it
            
And everything

              
 about it is a

         
 love song