(intro) D5 G5 B5 G5 B5 A5 G5 D5 G5

D5                     B5
When you find you can somehow
G5                    D5
Make it like all the rest
B5                                            A5
You won't need to scrounge around for someone else
     G5           D5
Torn between the unknown
        G5              D5
And the place you call home
        F#5                          A5
And the life you want but have never known

            D5
There was a time
          G5                B5
You could put it out of your mind
    G5            B5
And leave it all behind
            A5
There was a time
                 G5      D5 G5
And that time is gone

What has life for 50 years
In this town done for you
Except to earn your name and place on a barstool
You spend your whole life in this county
You've never been out of state
You say you're going to make it out before it's too late

There was a time
You could put it out of your mind
And leave it all behind
There was a time
And that time is gone

            D5                 D5                 B5
There was a time when nothing seemed to make much sense
           G5           B5
Now that's turned more intense
                                A5
And all the grudges you've kept around
        G5       D5     G5
Now are nowhere to be found

(Hammer on the 6th string, 2nd fret - then hammer 5th string, second fret,
then play the E5 note, 4th string, second fret, then play D5 chord)

Remember when you didn't have
To look ahead or behind you
There was always something right there to do
But now it's locked (maybe "life"- I dunno) in some kind of trap
Looking for a way out
We keep moving on that's what it's all about

There was a time
You could put it out of your mind
And leave it all behind
There was a time
And that time is gone