Key: Ab major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I had a bad night
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i mean not so bad i thought i
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was king of the world
and i drank till daylight
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i mean i never stopped once til
my hands finally fell
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and i fought my daytime self
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A
C
with a mighty dose of hey
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look at the night time me
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i never do win that battle
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but i fight it over and over
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and over and over it seems
Verse 2
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and i saw an old man
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smilin' on a park bench
feedin' the pigeon's
my head was spinnin'
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as my young body ached i wished
for an old man's vision
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and i watched the way he moved
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A
so slow, se rene,
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and lucky to be alive
and i thought to myself i'm never
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gonna make it that far
Em
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too many nights like last night
Verse 3
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C
I'd rather be 75 and sunny
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C
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and acting like I'm
17 and freezing again
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I'd rather be up early in the morning
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D
than up late at night again eras
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Bm
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in' memory's of where I've been
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or to be through at 52 someday
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stone faced and leery eyed
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you better believe i'm lookin
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for the moment
Bm
but my moment's growin'
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bigger by and by
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and i've got a best friend
Verse 4
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she dont drink or smoke like
I've been known too
shes got a religion
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shes a one wo men dynamo and shinin'
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light in every room she goes too
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she says the light thats there
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A
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wont go nowhere noway
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she dont spend every second smilin'
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but she's learnin' something
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exciting everyday
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she'd rather be 75 and sunny
Verse 5
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C
than 29 with a chance of shower
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s all the time
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Em
she'd rather be old as dirt and new
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as any 9 dollar bottle of wine
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or to be through at 35 momma stoned
with her back to the win
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you better believe she's looking
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for the moment
but her moment is the hold damn thing
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i see these spin kids
Verse 6
double wide eye'd and rollin' and rollin'
and tumblin'
there rollin' in inches
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A
taken the high dive approach and screamin'
towards the water
there hearts race a million miles
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Bm
as they buy another smile
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A
from a jar
there bodies are scream
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in' for the water
Bm
you know i just hope
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they make it that far
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i hope they're
Verse 7
75 and sunny
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D
not 29 with a chance flurries
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A
all the time
Bm
i hope we're all old as dirt
Em
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and not new as any
25 dollar ride that we can try
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Em
or to be through 35 momma stoned with
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A
our backs to the wind
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you better believe i'm lookin
for the moment
A
but my moment sums up the
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A
hole damn thing
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and i say I'd rather
Verse 8
be 75
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oh how nice, how easy for me to say
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I've never broken a bone in my life
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let alone had my heart or
a hip replaced
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and i keep this furious pace
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and i still feel so good and strong
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and i do get tempted for a taste,
just a taste
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D
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to keep me going,
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D
going,going, going, gone
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Verse 9
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But I got a notion
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that everything I've learned
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will come around
in my devotion to the new thing
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and the next thing and the hip
thing is slowin' down
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and i got a life in here wont go
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nowhere noway
Bm
and i don't spend every second smilin'
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Am
and i ain't tryin' but I'm
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excited for today
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cause I'd rather be 75 and sunny
Verse 10
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than 29 with a chance of shower
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s all the time
I'd rather be older than the wind
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then this years new kid runnin' for my life
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or to be through at 52 someday,
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stoned faced and leery eyed
you better believe i'm lookin
for the moment but my moment
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you better believe i'm lookin
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for the moment but my moment
C
you better believe i'm lookin
for the moment
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but my moments growin'
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bigger by and by by and by
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