Billy Joel – Getting Closer (Guitar)

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       A                 G
I went searching for the truth

          Em          A
But in my innocence I found

        A                 G
All the con men and their acrobats

    Em                A
Who stomped me in the ground

      A             G
If I count up their percentages

  Em                   A
I know they're getting rich

     A                 G
But they haven't taken everything

      Em             A
Those paybacks are a bitch

            C
Though I've lost quite a lot

     G
I am still in control

         C
They can keep what they've got

         A
But they can't have my soul

       D       G         A          D
And if I don't have this all worked out

         D        G       A         D 
Still I'm getting closer, getting closer

D            G      A     Bm
I still have far to go no doubt

        D       G       A       D
But I'm getting closer, getting closer

         A             G
What was ripped off by professionals

   Em              A
Is not all that it seems

         A              G
While I must live up to contracts

      Em             A
I did not give up my dreams

      A        G
If I see it as experience

   Em             A
It hasn't gone to waste

       A               G
Lately all the missing pieces

          Em           A
Have been falling into place

       C                         G
And if I could go back and start over somehow

        C       
I would not change that much

        A
Knowing what I know now

              D         G
Thought there have been sins

  A    D 
I will regret

         D        G       A       D
Still I'm getting closer, getting closer

   D         G       A       Bm
I don't have all the answers yet

        D       G       A       D
But I'm getting closer, getting closer
SOLO: G F A G (A could be Dm) (X4) A G Em A (X4)
      A              G
I'm a mark for every shyster

     Em         A
From Topanga to Berlin

      A                      G
And I should have learned to kick them out

   Em                 A
As soon as they crawled in

      A             G
So to every bank in Switzerland

     Em               A
That stores my stolen youth

     A              G
I'm alright because despite the laws

    Em              A
You cannot hide the truth

    C                 
And although you will say

     G
I am still too naive

       C     
Well I have not lost faith

       A
In the things I believe

       D       G           A          D
And if I don't have a this all worked out

         D        G       A       D
Still I'm getting closer, getting closer

   D         G      A     Bm
I still have far to go no doubt

       D      G       A       D       
But I'm still getting closer, getting closer