Key: E
Introduction:
E
I can't touch the clouds for you,
E B
I'll never reach the Sun for you.
B
I've never done the things
B E
That you need done for you.
E
I've stretched as high as I can reach
E A
I guess I'm not the one for you
A B E
'Cause I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun for you,
E B E
No I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun.
Second Verse
E
I can't turn back time for you,
E B
And make you sweet sixteen again,
B
And I can't turn your barren fields
B E
To green again.
E
And I won't sit around and talk
E A
Of how things might have been again,
A B E
No I can't turn back time and make you young again.
B E
I can't turn back time and make you young.
Third Verse
E B
I hope you find somebody who
B A E
Can do the things I didn't do
E A E
And find a road I didn't find
E B E
And build a brighter world for you.
E B
I hope you find somebody bold
B A E
Enough to reach and take a hold
E A E
And guide your ever changing mind
E A B
And free your ever rising soul.
B A B
But I can't. No, I can't.
Fourth verse
E
I can't look inside your mind
And see the things you're hoping for.
F#
So say goodbye, and don't look back
F# C#
I've had some happy days with you,
C# F#
Sorry I can't be the one who stays with you.
F#
And when they ask about me,
F# B
You can say I was the one with you
B C# F#
Who never touched the clouds or reached the sun with you.
F# C# E
No, I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun.
Outro
F# B C#
I guess it's done,
C# F# C#
I can't touch the sun for you. Ooh, Ooh, Ooh!
C# F#
I can't touch the sun. I can't. No, no, I can't.
F# C# F#
Ooh hoo, oh no.
F# C#
I can't touch the sun, no, no, no.
F#
Mmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
F#
I can't. No, no, I can't.
F# C# F#
Ooh hoo, oh no.
F# C#
I can't touch the sun,
C# F#
I can't touch the sun...