Tom: A
Introdução:
G C
Every generation blames the one before
G C
And all of their frustrations come beating on your door
F
I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear
Am
I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears
D G
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
G C
Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thought
G C
Stilted conversations I'm afraid that's all we've got
F
You say you just don't see it He says it's perfect sense
Am
You just can't get agreement in this present tense
D G
We all talk a different language Talking in defence
G C
Say it loud, say it clear
Am D G
You can listen as well as you hear
G C
It's too late when we die
Am D G
To admit we don't see eye to eye
G C
So we open up a quarrel between the present and the past
G C
We only sacrifice the future It's the bitterness that lasts
F
So don't yield to the fortunes you sometimes see as fate
Am
It may have a new perspective on a different day
D G
And if you don't give up, and don't give in You may just be OK.
G C
Say it loud, say it clear
Am D G
You can listen as well as you hear
G C
It's too late when we die
Am D G
To admit we don't see eye to eye
G C
I wasn't there that morning when my father passed away
G C
I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say
F
I think I caught his spirit later that same year
Am
I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's new born tears
D G
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
G C
Say it loud, say it clear
Am D G
You can listen as well as you hear
G C
It's too late when we die
Am D G
To admit we don't see eye to eye
G C
Say it loud, say it clear
Am D G
You can listen as well as you hear
G C
It's too late when we die
Am D G
To admit we don't see eye to eye