Intro:  F5 (no3)  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.