Intro Em Am Am7
|
|
G Em
|
You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball
|
C Am
|
And look for the air-raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so
|
G Em
|
small and all the gardens That had trees and stolen apples
|
C Am
|
now have small businesses flourishing in cinder blocks
|
G Em Am C
|
Then they will call your name and hand you a gold watch
|
G Em Am C
|
Then they will call your name but it doesn't sound like much
|
G Em C Am
|
And you'll never discover why it's like an old lover
|
G Em Am C
|
you can't touch anymore It doesn't mean much anymore
|
G Em Em Am Am7 Em Em Am Am7
|
when you go back in time back in time
|
|
You head down to the local try to find a focal point
|
A scratch in the wallpaper but it's all been wallpapered over
|
Down at the newsagents it's all pornography
|
And you try to get high again but it's like time-lapse photography
|
Then they will call your name and hand you a medal
|
Or something more practical like a whistling kettle
|
and it'll test your metal Just try to keep grinning
|
knowing that this feeling is Indulgence worse than sinning
|
trying to go back in time
|
|
Instrumental section (chords like verse but not as many.)
|
|
G Em
|
Photographs with a glossy finish letters lovers never finished
|
C Am (G)
|
And there in a dusty drawer a necktie you once wore
|
G Em
|
And a girl you tried to court made you feel about two feet short
|
C Am
|
Where is she now today? What would she have to say?
|
G Em Am C
|
Then they will call your name and hand you a pension
|
G Em Am C
|
A bottle of pills that guarantee life extension
|
G Em C Am
|
and give you a mention in the local boy makes good section
|
G Em Am C
|
But all the old news is like print stains across your mind
|
G Em Em Am Em Em Am
|
when you go back in time
|
|
Yes all this old news is just print stains across your mind
|
when you go back in time, Back in time (repeat and fade)
|
|
-----------------
|
Back in time
|
| Graham Parker |
