The Middle Ages chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Bm
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Em
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Verse 1
D 
Looking back is not the same as
Bm 
looking forward
You can't see what it is
G 
you're heading toward
A 
All that's visible is what's
D 
left behind
The dreams distilled and
Bm 
the dreams discarded
What made you leap or left
G 
you empty hearted
A 
In the moment and in
the fullness of time
D 
A 

Verse 2
G 
Now you see what it is that you would
D 
Bm 
G 
have changed if only you'd known
Bm 
Where you'd be and to be here is
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A 
very strange waking up alone
Em 
A 
D 
In  the middle ages
A 

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Verse 3
D 
Bm 
All along you paid close attention
To the answers when a voice
G 
asked the question
How'd you get here,
A 
D 
A 
D 
where do you belong
17 makes us brave and so
Bm 
full of nerve
35 makes us pause but we're undeterred
G 
A 
Never say die and so
we push on
D 
A 

Verse 4
G 
And some come to a place of reckoning
D 
Bm 
G 
try to fix what they find
Bm 
I arrived with the questions still beckon
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G 
A 
ing   in the back of my mind
D 
To the middle ages
Bm 

Verse 5
G 
Asus4 
A 
Now you bitch about your job what's
D 
wrong with folks today
Bm 
The price of gas and milk and
G 
the guy who begs for change
A 
He's camped out at the light you
D 
hide behind your shades
Bm 
And will the green to flash
to speed your getaway
G 
Asus4 
You're racing to keep up
A 
D 
or just to be on time
Bm 
That's what you tell yourself
G 
when the emptiness inside
Asus4 
Threatens to break out clouding up your eyes
D 
A 
D 
you just have to pull over

Verse 6
D 
We used to dread lives
Bm 
rendered ordinary
We always said we'd own
G 
a grander story
A 
But the only kind worth
D 
A 
telling somehow
D 
Is the one about a jolt that
Bm 
makes you listen
That jagged lightning bolt
G 
of recognition
A 
That love and kindness are all
Asus4 
that matter now
D 
A 

Verse 7
G 
And way back in the back of your mind you
D 
Bm 
heard something getting through
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Bm 
F#m 
Like some beautiful passage without words     welcoming
A 
D 
you to the middle ages