https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gn4b1qJ12rowCNRw5DHM9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNG3OLw7lCc
from 'Songs in the Key of Life' (1976)
Capo III
Intro 1
| N.C. | F |
Intro 2
| [F] [Dm] | [E] [Am] |
| [F] [Dm] | [E] [Am] |
| [F] [Dm] | [E] [Am] |
Verse 1
[F] [Dm] [E] [Am]
They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E] [Am]
They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E] [Am]
They've been wasting most their time, glorifying days long gone behind.
[F] [Dm] [E] [Am]
They've been wasting most their days in remembrance of ignorance oldest praise. Tell me...
Chorus
[F] [Dm] [E] [Am]
Who of them will come to be?
[F] [Dm] [E] [Am]
How many of them are you and me?
Bridge 1
[F] [F] [Em/G] [Em/G]
Dissipation, race relations,
[F] [F] [Em/G] [Em/G]
consolation, segregation.
[F] [Em] [Dm] [E]
Dispensation, isolation, exploitation, mutilation.
[F] [Em] [Dm] [E]
Mutations, miscreation, confirmation, to the evils of the world.
Verse 2
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
They've been looking in their minds for the day that sorrow's gone from time.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
They keep telling of the day when the Saviour of love will come to stay. Tell me...
Chorus
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
Who of them will come to be?
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
How many of them are you and me?
Bridge 2
[F] [F] [Em/G] [Em/G]
Proclamation of race relations,
[F] [F] [Em/G] [Em/G]
consolation, integration.
[F] [Em] [Dm] [E]
Verification, of revelations, acclamation, world salvation.
[F] [Em] [Dm] [E]
Vibrations, stimulation, confirmation to the peace of the world.
Verse 3
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
We've been spending too much of our lives, living in a pastime paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
Let's start living our lives, living for the future paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
Praise to our lives, living for the future paradise.
[F] [Dm] [E7] [Am]
Shame to anyone's lives, living in the pastime paradise.
Coda
|([Am]) [Dm] | [E] [Am] [E] [Am]
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)
