Key: D major
Verse 1
Tell me what is important to you.
The primal fact about yourself.
Well, it's true.
There is one basic fact about me.
Primal. Sing! Sing? Sing! Ahem.
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D
And I don't even know it till they're gone
I hear the hurdy -gurdy
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D
a time that didn't last.
I know what you mean.
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of handkerchiefs and lace,
Bm
E
ears fol ded in their place.
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and the old perfume reminds me
Em
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D
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an d I folded it away
Asus4
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for to morrow
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F#m
And I cry, yes, that was important,
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F#m
yes, that day was important,
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I didn't know it then.
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I'm living life in retrospect,
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Bm
in images so indirect,
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and never will I touch it again.
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I fold away the handkerchiefs and lace,
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and put them in their place.
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Bm
I hear the hurdy -gurdy fading
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D
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Did we ever really meet?
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it till they're gone
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B
F#m
And time's an old calliope
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The music drifts away from me
Em
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and haunts me from the past.
The music did not last.
I didn't know it then,
but never would I hear it again.
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I'm not living, Isaac.
In the moment, I mean.
I mean, look, let's face it.
and until this very moment,
what it means to be in this elevator.
Bm
D
I mean the walls, the ceiling,
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this little space, smell, touch, the ins, the outs,
the ups, the downs,
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Baug
everything, the essence.
Oh, my dear, my dear,
I know what you mean.
Well, that's pretty sad.
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Yes, it is.
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I know it now.
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F#m
I must try to touch the moment
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while I have it somehow.
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