Chords for 🎵 Mike + the Mechanics - The Living Years REACTION

Oh, [C] oh, this is deep.
[Em] All _ [Ab] right, today we're checking out Mike and the Mechanics.
We listened to the song The Living Years.
Let's get into it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _ All his hopes and [Bbm] fears I [Eb] just wish I could have told him in the living [Ab] _ _ years.
_ _ Oh, crumpled bits of paper _ filled [Db] with imperfect _ law. _ _ _
[Ab] Stilted conversations, _ _ _ I'm afraid [Db] that's all we've got. _ _
[Gb] You say you just don't see it, you say it's a perfect sense.
[Bbm] You just can't get agreement in this present tense.
We [Eb] all talk a different language, talking in [Ab] defense.
_ _ _ Say it loud.
Say it loud.
_ Say [Db] it clear.
Oh, say it clear.
You [Bbm] can't miss her as [Eb] well as [Ab] you can.
_ _ _ _ It's too late.
It's too late.
When [Db] we die.
Oh, when we die.
Too [Bbm] late.
We don't [Eb] see eye [Ab] to eye. _ _ _ _ _
So we open up the forum.
_ [Eb] _ Oh, oh, this is deep.
This is deep.
You know, I was actually thinking along these lines like just yesterday.
I was like, dang, you know, like we're so excited to be parents and all this stuff.
But at the same time, I was like, we got to take care of ourselves enough that we can make it into like our kids being adults.
Because I was like, I would have loved to get to know my dad as an adult.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I feel like that's like the only piece of the puzzle that's missing for me is just like, dang, I wonder if he, like that happens to me.
Like I would like go through, like through the years, like go through situations in life.
And I'm like, I wonder if I get this from him.
You know, I wonder if he would like this.
I wonder what he would think of this.
You know, but we never like got to that point.
I'm like, dang, I want to like do that for our kids, you know.
Right, because you learn so much more about your parents when you go through [Bb] different phases of life.
And then you can relate to things that they were going through back in the day that you had a kid perspective on.
Now you have an adult perspective.
You can go to them for advice.
You just learn so much more about them.
The relationship changes over time.
And it's like, yeah, they try to teach you stuff when you're a kid, but you just don't have the [E] framework to understand it, you know, until you go through it.
And so I'm like, ooh, this is like, this is deep.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ That's the last.
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_ Sometimes see space.
It [Bbm] may have a new perspective _ on a different day.
[Eb] And if you don't give it, and don't give it, you may just be [Ab] okay. _
_ _ Say, say, say, say.
_ _ Oh, stay _ [Db] _ _ _
_ clear, you [Bb] can hear [Eb] sound as well as [Ab] you hear. _
_ _ Because it's too late, _ _ it's too late, when [Db] we _ _ die,
to [Bbm] find it, we [Eb] don't see eye [Ab] to eye.
_ _ _ _ I wasn't there that morning, _ _ when [Db] my father passed [Ab] away.
_ _ _ Didn't get to tell him, _ all the things [Db] I had to say.
_ _ [Gb] I think I caught his spirit, later that same [Ab] year.
[Bbm] I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's newborn tears.
I [Eb] just wish I could have told him in the living [Ab] _ _
years.
So stay clear, stay clear, _ _ _ _ stay _ [Db] clear, stay clear,
you can [Bbm] hear sound [Eb] as well as you [Ab] _ hear.
_ _ _ It's too _ late, it's too late, when [Db] we _ _ die,
to [Bbm] find it, we [Eb] don't see eye to [Ab] eye. _
_ So stay, stay, stay in love, _ stay in love, stay [Db] in love. _
_ _ Stay in [Ab] love, don't give up, don't give in, don't give [Db] _ _ _
up.
[Gb] Mmm, that was beautiful.
That was a beautiful song.
Literally, that was like, that was so true.
But then I was like, dang, well, the thing is, as you get older and you realize these things,
and you're like, oh, maybe do that a little different, see this a little different.
It's like, well, your younger self wouldn't though.
[Abm] So like, the way it played out, it's just like, you have to like, not be mad at yourself.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
But he was, that was factual.
You can listen as well as you hear, but also like, what you [Bb] listen to,
like what you hear is just different as you get older.
Like, you know what I mean?
It is different as you go through different phases of life.
You can relate to your parents more.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like, if you, or if we have a kid that's like you, what would you want to do?
What do you mean?
You're going to want to talk to your parents and be like, how do you handle a kid like me?
How did you guys do it to where you didn't break my spirit, but I was giving you all kinds of stuff.
I mean, if we have a kid like me, I'm [Db] definitely going to phone my parents.
And what do I do?
What the heck?
[N] Yeah.
What is this kid on?
That's a good point.
Just like me.
That's a good point.
And I was a handful.
Yeah.
I would definitely want to talk to my parents.
Yeah.
It was weird how he said it's like, it's too late when we die to admit that we don't see eye to eye.
Cause I was kind of like, what does he mean by that?
Like basically that we differ in opinions or something.
Maybe they didn't talk for a while.
Cause they didn't see eye to eye.
Oh.
You know, some people don't talk to their parents for like a decade.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess it's easy.
You can just admit you don't see eye to eye and you can move forward from there.
That's true.
Yeah.
We don't agree, but I still love you.
What you want to do now?
Want to barbecue?
[Bb] You know what I mean?
Want to barbecue.
Want to play cards?
[Gbm] Dominos?
[N] You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Play some music.
Hang out.
Play chess?
Let's go.
_ [G] I don't know. _
[Ab] _ Tell me [G] man, what do you know?
[Ab] What?
Me and my boys on [G] the road.
See [Abm] the dough.
[Cm] She told me, boy, [G] you the dough.
Like [Ab] I don't know.
But [G] I don't know.