• Song:

    A Lifetime Acoustic

  • Artist:

    Better Than Ezra

**CAPO 2**


C5              G5
Allie woke up 8AM
D5
Graduation day.
C5
Got into a car,
G5 *                 D5
And crashed along the way.

C5                    G5
When we arrived late to the wake,
D5
Stole the urn while they looked away,
C5
And drove to the beach
          G5 *                 D5
'Cause I knew you'd want it that way.

A5                           A5
And you were standing on the hood of the car
C5                      D5
Singing out loud when the sun came up.

*CHORUS:*
      C5                    G5
And I know I wasn't right,
                D5
But it felt so good.
C5                        G5 *
And your mother didn't mind,
                    D5
Like I thought she would.
         C5            G5
And that REM song was playing 
       D5
In my mind.
     A5                   A5    C5
And three and a half minutes
D5
Felt like a lifetime...
                     C5     G5    D5
It felt like a lifetime


*BRIDGE*         
                   C5     G5     D5
And you move like water (yeah...)
                C5    G5 *      D5
I could drown in you.  
               C5          G5      D5
And I fell so deep once, (yeah...)
                   C5    G5 *     D5
Till you pulled me throoough (ohh ohh...)
  D5       
You would tell me
A5                    A5        
"No one is allowed to be so proud
C5                               D5
They never reach out when they're giving up."
       C5                  G5            
And I know I wasn't right,
                D5
But it felt so good.
         C5               G5 *
And your mother didn't mind,
                   D5
Like I thought she would.
         C5             G5
And that REM song was playing
D5
In my mind.
A5                     A5    C5
And three and a half minutes
D5
Felt like a lifetime...


C5         G5             D5
Are you sitting in the lights?
                C5          G5 *
Or combing your hair again,
               D5
And talking in rhymes?
C5    G5 *           D5 D5
Are you sitting in the liiiights?

(softly...)
C5                G5       
When I got home, heard the phone,
         D5
Your parents had arrived.
C5   
And your dad set his jaw
G5                        D5
Your mom just smiled and sighed.
(getting louder...)
C5                        G5
But they left soon and I went to my room.
D5
Played that disc that you'd given me,
       C5        G5 *
And I shut my eyes
                     D5
Swear I could hear the sea...

A5                           A5
When we were standing on the hood of your car
C5                          D5
Singing out loud when the sun came up.
     
*CHORUS*
       C5                G5
And I know I wasn't right,
                D5
But it felt so good.
       C5                G5 *
And your mother didn't mind,
                   D5
Like I thought she would.
          C5              G5            D5
And that REM song was playing in my mind.
A5                    A5        C5
And three and a half minutes,
D5       A5        C5
Three and a half minutes,
D5            G5
Felt like a lifetime.
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