The Past Is Another Land chords by Heather Headley

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Cm
D
G
F
C
Dsus4
Ab
E
A
Bb
Csus4

Verse 1
Cm 
You know nothing about me,
D 
G 
and care even less.
F 
How could you understand
G 
our emptiness?
Cm 
F 
You plundered our wisdom,
G 
C 
our knowledge, our wealth.
F 
C 
In bleeding us dry,
Dsus4 
G 
you long     for our spirit.
Ab 
G 
But that you will never posess.
C 

Verse 2
F 
C 
The past is now another land,
far beyond my reach.
E 
A 
D 
Invaded by insidious foreign bodies,
G 
foriegn speech
Bb 
F 
but the timeless joys of childhood lie
C 
G 
broken on the beach.
C 
D 

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Verse 3

Csus4

The present is an empty space,

between the good and bad.

A moment leading nowhere,

too pointless to be sad,

but time enough to lay to waste,

every certainty I had.

Verse 4
C 
F 
C 
The future is a barren world
F 
C 
G 
C 
from which I can't return.
D 
E 
A 
Both thoughtless and material,
Dsus4 
D 
it's wretched spoils
G 
mock my concern.
Bb 
F 
Shining like an evil sun,
G 
C 
as my childhood treasures burn.
Bb 
C 
F 
Shining like an evil sun,
C 
G 
as my childhood treasures burn.
C 