Standard Tuning
Capo 2

Chords Used

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[Verses]
            
Ticking away t

              
he moments tha

             
t make up a du

ll day
             
You fritter an

              
d waste the ho

              
urs in an off 

     
hand way
            
Kicking around

              
 on a piece of

              
 ground in you

  
r hometown
             
Waiting for so

              
meone or somet

              
hing to show y

       
ou the way

         
Tired of lying

              
 in the sunshi

   
ne staying hom

e to watch the

 rain
         
And, you are y

              
oung and life 

            
is long and th


ere is time to

 kill today
         
   And then on

              
e day you find

 
 ten years hav

e got behind y

ou
            
No one told yo

              
u when to run,

 
 you missed th

e starting gun

         
         
         
         

         
         

            
And you run an

              
d you run to c

              
atch up with t

              
he sun, but it

  
s sinking
             
And racing aro

              
und to come up

            
 behind you ag

ain
            
The sun is the

              
 same in the r

              
elative way, b

         
ut youre older
             
Shorter of bre

              
ath and one da

            
y closer to de

ath

         
Every year is 

              
getting shorte

   
r, never seem 

to find the ti

me
         
Plans that eit

              
her come to na

        
ught or half a

 page of scrib

bled lines
         
Hanging on in 

            
quiet desperat

ion is the eng

lish way
            
The time is go

              
ne, the song i

           
s over, though

              
t Id something

 
 more to say

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TAKE OFF CAPO!!!!!
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  Home, home a

  
gain
            
  I like to be

             
 here when I c

  
an
      
And when I com

              
e home cold an

    
d tired
            
Its good to wa

              
rm my bones be

         
side the fire

Far away acros

s the field
    
The tolling of

 the iron bell

Calls the fait

hful to their 

knees
            
To hear the so

        
ftly spoken ma

  
gic spells.