The Way Things Used to Be chords by 
Badly Drawn Boy 
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Key: E major•
Verse 1
D
A
The way things used to be,
F#m
A
E
well not any more
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Close your eye s,
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A
D
open up your door
Well I'm not tired,
A
F#m
A
E
I'm coming alive
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D
But you make up on, let's go out tonight
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Interlude 1
C#m
B
A
G#
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E
B
A
E
Verse 2
E
These
things don't matter now
B
C#m
We can leave it all behind
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E
That's all depending on
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If you're free to free
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your mind
Verse 3
B
C#m
The crucifix still hun g
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up by the door
B
But Jesus doesn't come
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A
here anymore
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E
Those memories still hanging
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on the wall
B
But people there don't
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look like us at all
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Verse 4
C#m
B
A
G#
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Don't need re mind ing of
E
B
A
E
The way things used to be
Verse 5
E
I rise you to the top
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A
Then we walk back down again
E
Look to the future now
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Where you're go ing,
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where you've been
Verse 6
B
The universe is smal
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A
ler than you think
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E
So many years spent blind and
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then you blink
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E
A
I promise you an end to suffering
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If you could be my queen,
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I'll be your king
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Verse 7
C#m
B
A
G#
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Don't need re mind ing of
E
B
A
E
The way things used to be
Interlude 2
E
C#m
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E
C#m
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B
C#m
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B
E
A
C#m
B
A
G#
A
C#m
B
A
G#
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E
Verse 8
B
C#m
Take this chance to rest
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your tired eye s
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E
A
Come with me, we'll move to better skies
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If where we go don't
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E
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make a differ ence
B
Just turn around and we'll
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come back again
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Verse 9
C#m
B
A
G#
A
Don't need re mind ing of
E
B
A
E
The way things used to be
E
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