Intro: AEAE
A Maybe you talk too high, man.
EA Maybe I talk too slow.
EC#m But you've got to live a little bit faster
F#A 'cause you've got a little less time to go.
EA
EA I ain't lost and I ain't searching,
EA but then you know me very well.
EB/D# And I can't change the wind
C#m and make it blow the other way.
F#mAE I'm a fool and I can tell...
F#B ... that I'm alive and that's all,
F#B that I can get up just as fast as I fall.
F#B And I can walk and run but I'll never crawl.
F#B And in the end it doesn't matter at all.
EA I don't know about the peo ple
BA that I read about in books.
EA And the kings and queens around my room
BA with their quiet and dirty looks.
EAB I know I should be go ing somewhere,
A I just can't arrive.
EA There's a reason for believ ing
E that I've never been alive.
EA Alive.
AEAE
A I ain't lost and I ain't searching,
EA but then you know me very well.
EB/D# And I can't change the world
C#m and make it go the other way.
F#AE I'm a fool and I can tell...
F#B ... that I'm alive and that's all,
F#B that I can get up just as fast as I fall.
F#B And I can walk and run but I'll never crawl.
F#B And in the end it doesn't matter at all.
EA I don't know about the peo ple
BA that I read about in books.
EA And the kings and queens around my room
BA with their quiet and dirty looks.
EAB I know I should be go ing somewhere,
A I just can't arrive.
EA There's a reason for believ ing
E that I've never been alive.
EA/E I know I should be go ing somewhere,
B/D#A I just can't arrive.
EA There's a reason for believ ing
B7A that I've never been alive.
EAE Alive, alive.