Time passages
C - G
- F - C - G - F (2x) + C - G - F
- C - G - F (2x)
C G Em F
1. It was late in December, the sky turned to snow,
F G Am F
all around the
day was going down slow.
C
G Em F
Night like a river beginning
to flow,
F
G Am F
I felt the beat of my mind go
drifting into....
C G
- C
G Am
D
Time passages, years go
falling in the fading light,
C G - F Em G C
time passages, buy me a ticket on the last train home
tonight !
+ C - G -
F - C - G - F (2x)
C G Em F
2. Well, I’m not the kind to live in the past,
F G Am F
the
years run too short and the days too fast.
C G Em F
The things you lean on are
things that don’t last,
F G
Am F
well,
it’s just now and then my line gets cast into those ….
C G - C G Am D
Time passages, there’s
something back here that you left behind !
C
G - F Em G C
Oh, time passages, buy me a ticket on the last train home
tonight.
+ C - G -
F - C - G - F
G# C
+ Here the echoes and feel
yourself starting to turn,
G#
Am
- D
don’t know why you should feel that there’s something to learn,
- - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - C
it’s just a game
that you play.
+ C - G -
F - C - G - F (2x) + C - G - F
- C - G - F (2x)
(instrumental passage left
out here)
C
G
Em F
3. Well, the picture is changing, now you’re part of a crowd,
F
G Am F
they’re
laughing at something and the music is loud.
C G Em
F
A girl comes towards you, you once used to know,
F G Am F
you
reach out your hand but you’re all alone
in those ...
C G - C G Am
D
Time passages, I know you’re in there, you’re just out of sight !
C
G - F Em G C
Oh, time passages, buy me a ticket on the last train home
tonight.
+ C - G -
F - C - G - F (2x) + C - G - F
- C - G - F (2x) ....
(orig. = capo 3rd) (Al Stewart)