Intro:  F5 (no 3)  F5    G5    Bb5  

        A5      C5        Bb5  

              F5                 F5 
They say that these are not the best of times 
    G5                Bb5                F5  F5  G5  Bb5  
But they're the only times I've ever known 
        F5                F5         G5 
And I believe there is a time for meditation 
     Bb5                C5  G5 C5 
In cathedrals of our own 
A5       D5               C5            Bb5         F5 
Now I've seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes 
    G5      G5              C5      C5 
And I can only stand apart and sympathize 
           Bb5              F5            G5 
For we are always what our situations hand us 
            C5         Bb5      Eb5  Bb5 
It's either sadness or euphoria 
 
So we'll argue and we'll compromise 

And realize that nothing's ever changed 

For all our mutual experience 

Out separate conclusions are the same. 

Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity 

Our reason coexists with our insanity 

And though we choose between reality and madness 

It's either sadness or euphoria 
 

    D5               C5             Bb5     F5 
How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies 
   G5            G5                C5     C5 
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies 
          Bb5             F5             G5 
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives 
           C5            Bb5     Eb5  Bb5 
With our respective similarities 
            C5         F5        
It's either sadness or euphoria.