Chords for Mike & The Mechanics -The Living Years (Live at Shepherds Bush)

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_ _ _ _ _ Every generation blames the one before.
_ [Db] _ _ [Ab] All of that frustration _ _ come [Db] beating on your door.
_ _ _ [Ab] [Gb] Know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear.
[Bbm] I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears.
[Eb] I wish I could have told [Db] him in [Eb] the living [Ab]
year.
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Crumpled bits of paper _ _ filled _ [Db] with imperfect [Ab] _ thoughts.
_ Still the conversation.
_ _ _ _ I'm [Db] afraid that's all we are.
_ You say [Gb] you just don't see it.
You say there's perfect sense.
[Bbm] You just can't get agreement in this present sense.
We [Eb] all talk a different language [Db] _ [Eb] in _ [Ab]
defense.
Will you help me now?
[Db] Say [Ab] it loud.
Oh, say it loud.
Say [Db] it clear.
Come on, say it clear.
You [Bbm] can _ _ [Eb] listen as loud as [Ab] you hear.
Well, you know that it's too [Db] late.
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_ _ It's too late now.
When [Db] we die.
People, when we die.
_ [Ab] To [Bbm] end it, we don't [Eb] see eye [Ab]
to eye.
_ _ [Db] _ _ [Ab] So we open up a quarrel _ between [Db] the present and the past.
_ _ We [Ab] only sacrifice the future.
_ It's [Db] the bitterness that lasts.
_ _ [Gb] Don't yield to the fortune you sometimes see us make.
[Bbm] May have a new perspective on a different day.
[Eb] If you don't give up and don't give [Db] in, you [Eb] may just be [Ab] okay.
Come on now.
You say it _ loud.
Won't you say it loud?
Say [Db] it clear.
Won't I say it clear?
_ You [Bbm] can _ listen [Eb] as loud as [Ab] you hear.
Oh, don't you know that it's too late now? _
_ _ It's too late.
When [Db] we die.
Oh, when we die.
_ To [Bbm] end it, we [Eb] don't see eye [Ab] to eye.
_ _ _ _ _ I wasn't there that morning _ _ _ when [Db] my father passed away.
_ _ _ [Ab] I didn't get to tell him _ all [Db] the things I had to say.
_ I [Gb] think I caught his spirit later that same year.
[Bbm] Sure, I heard his echo in my baby's newborn tears.
[Eb] I wish I could have told him.
[Db] _ _ [Eb] In [Ab] the living years.
[Db] Beautiful.
Sing it.
Say it [Ab] loud.
_ _ Say _ _ [Db] it loud.
Oh, won't you say it clear?
You can [Bbm] _ listen [Eb] as loud as [Ab] you hear.
Cause [Db] you know that it's [Ab] too late. _ _
_ _ People, it's too late.
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It's too late.
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To admit that we don't [Eb] see eye [Ab] to eye.
_ _ Just say it, say it, say it loud.
_ _ _ Say it loud.
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_ Won't you say it clear?
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Don't _ _ _ _ _ [Db] you wake up, it's too late.
_ Sing it every single [Ab] day.
_ _ _ Oh, it's too late.
[Db] _
Don't let it wait too long before you say it.
[Ab] _
_ _ _ Say it loud.
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_ Don't let it go.
_ [Ab] Say it loud.
_ _ _ _ Say [Db] it clear.
_ _ _ _ _ You can [Bbm]
listen as [Eb] well _ [Db] as you hear.
_ _ _ No, no.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, thank you very much. _ _ _ _ _ _ _