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Ev ’ry gen er a tion
filled (Db)blames the one be fore,
and (Ab)all of their frus tra tions
I’m come (Db)beat ing on your door.
I (Gb)know that I’m a pris ’ner to all my fa ther held so dear, I (Bbm)know that I’m a hos tage to all his hopes and fears.
I just wish I could have told him (Db)in the (Eb)liv ing years.
Oh, crum pled bits of pa per
filled (Db)with im per fect thought,
and (Ab)stilt ed con ver sa tions,
I’m a (Db)fraid that’s all we’ve got.
You (Gb)say you just don’t see it, to all he says it’s per fect sense.
You (Bbm)just can’t get a gree ment to in this pres ent tense.
We all talk a dif f’rent lan guage, (Db)talk ing (Eb)in de fense.
Oh,
Say it loud,
say it (Db)clear.
You can (Eb)lis ten as well as you (Ab)hear.
It’s too late
when we (Db)die
to ad (Eb)mit we don’t see eye to (Ab)eye.
So we crum pled bits of pa per
filled (Db)with im per fect thought,
and (Ab)stilt ed con ver sa tions,
I’m a (Db)fraid that’s all we’ve got.
You (Gb)say you just don’t see it, to all he says it’s per fect sense.
You (Bbm)just can’t get a gree ment to in this pres ent tense.
We all talk a dif f’rent lan guage, (Db)talk ing (Eb)in de fense.
Oh,
Say it loud,
say it (Db)clear.
You can (Eb)lis ten as well as you (Ab)hear.
It’s too late
when we (Db)die
to ad (Eb)mit we don’t see eye to (Ab)eye.
So we
Say it loud,
say it (Db)clear.
You can (Eb)lis ten as well as you (Ab)hear.
It’s too late
when we (Db)die
to ad (Eb)mit we don’t see eye to (Ab)eye.
I
Say it (Ab)loud,
say it (Db)clear.
Say it (Ab)loud,
say it (Db)clear.
Say it (Ab)loud.
This page shows “The Living Years” by Mike + The Mechanics in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of Db at 90 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.