Key: G
Introduction:
G C G
I was a dreamer when I was young
D Em C
Lyin' on the grass, starin' at the sky
G C G
I never felt the time was moving on
D Em
I thought it would stay the same
C
For all my life
D Em C
Playin' games under Christmas lights
D Em C
When the world was warm and bright
D Em C
But that time just seemed to fly
D
In the blinking of an eye
G C G
I was a joker when I was at school
D Em C
Smokin' grass, laughing and gettin' high
G C G
I never cared about nothin' at all
D Em
I thought it would stay the same
C
For all my life
D Em C
Kissing girls under summer nights
D Em C
When the world was big and bright
D Em C
But that time just passed me by
D G G4 G
In the blinking of an eye
Am Em
I left home at seventeen
G D
Tried to get into the music scene
Am Em
It wore me down like an old machine
G D
I learned how to work and forgot how to dream, oh
G AmEm D G D
Yea-ea-eah
G C G
I fell in love at twenty-one
D Em C
Down in the grass, getting lost in her wide eyes
G C G
Wouldn't have traded it for anyone
D Em
I thought it would stay the same
D
For all my life
Em C
But I was just too young to know
D Em C
I let her down and let her go
D Em C
That time taught me how to cry
D
In the blinking of an eye
G Am Em D G D
In the blinking of an eye
G C G
I hit the road at twenty-three
D Em C
Stood in the grass, singing songs for passers-by
G C G
Foot-loose and fancy-free
D Em
I thought it would stay the same
D
For all my life
Em C
Oh and practice taught me how to preach
D Em C
I touched the world, so out of reach
D Em C
And that time, it lived and died
D G G4 G
In the blinking of an eye
Am Em
It all changed at twenty-nine
G D
My boat came in and the stars aligned
Am Em
I watched a simple song of mine
G D
Travel the world in the blink of an eye, yeah
G AmEm D
Yea-ea-eah
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