| Artist: | Better Than Ezra (English) |
| User: | msyahnaz |
| Duration: | 130 seconds |
| Delay: | 12 seconds |
| Chord names: | Default |
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| Comment: | - |
Better Than Ezra – A Lifetime
150 bpm 4/4 Strumming [Closer 2001]
Verse 1
F C G G
Allie woke up eight A.M… Graduation day…
F C G G
Got into a car… Crashed along the way…
F C
and we arrived late… to the wake…
G G
Stole the urn while they looked away…
F C
and drove to the beach ‘cause I knew
G G
you'd want it that way…
Dm Dm.. em
and you were standing on the ho-ooo-od of the car…
F **^ G
Singing out loud when the sun came up…
Chorus 1
F C G G
and I know I wasn't right… but it felt so good…
F C G G
and your mother didn't mind… like I thought she would…
F C G G
and that REM song was playing in my mind…
Dm Dm.. em F ^ G
and three and a half minutes… Felt like a lifetime…
Interlude
F C G G F C G * G
It felt like a lifetime…
Verse 3
F C G G
and you move like water… Yea-aaa…
F C G G
I could drown in you…
F C G G
and I fell so deep once… Yea-aaa…
F C G G
till you pulled me through… Aaa-aaa…
Dm Dm.. em
You would tell me… "No one is allowed to be so proud…
F **^ G
They never reach out when they're giving up…"
Chorus 1
F C G G
and I know I wasn't right… but it felt so good…
F C G G
and your mother didn't mind… like I thought she would…
F C G G
and that REM song was playing in my mind…
Dm Dm.. em F ^ G
and three and a half minutes… Felt like a lifetime…
Bridge
C. g f C. g c F G
C. g f C. g c F G
Are you sit---ting in the li-iii-ghts… or combing your
C. g f C. g c F G
hair again… and talking in rhy-yyy-mes…
C. g f C. g c F G
Are you sit---ting in the li-iii-ghts…
Verse 4
F C G G
When I got home… Heard the phone… Your parents had arrived…
F C G G
and your dad set his jaw… Your mom just smiled and sighed…
F C
but they left soon and I went to my room…
G G
Played that disc that you'd given me…
F C G G
and I shut my eyes… Swear I could hear the sea…
Dm Dm.. em
when we were standing on the hood of your car…
F **^ G
singing out loud when the sun came up…
Chorus 2
F C G G
and I know I wasn't right… but it felt so good…
F C G G
and your mother didn't mind… like I thought she would…
F C G G
and that REM song was playing in my mind…
Dm Dm.. em F G
and three and a half minutes…
Outro
Dm Dm.. em F ^ G
and three and a half mi-nutes… felt like a lifetime…