The Past Is Another Land chords by
Heather Headley
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Key: B major

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

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

Verse 3
C C 
 
Csus4 Csus4 
 
The present is an empty space,
C C 
 
between the good and bad.
E E 
 
A A 
 
A moment leading nowhere,
D D 
 
G G 
 
too pointless to be sad,
Bb Bb 
 
F F 
 
but time enough to lay to waste,
G G 
 
C C 
 
every certainty I had.

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

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