Level 42 – Children Say (Guitar)

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Tab by: schoben [Intro] Asus2 B Asus2 B D E [Verse 1]
Asus2
I keep to myself what I might share with others

B
but they don't seem to understand

Asus2
I open my mouth to rediscover

  B                    D        E
I don't have the words at my command

Asus2
holding out for a world so much better

          B
but I'm a stranger in a stranger's land

        Asus2
all my friends have sold out couldn't handle the pressure

B                                  D                 E
counting their blessings trying to salvage what they can
[Chorus]
C#m7           Amaj7
Children say - children say

   Cmaj7             D
we open our minds as one

C#m7              Amaj7
as one more day - slips away

              Cmaj7                     D
why don't the dreams of the young never come to be
[Verse 2]
Asus2
When I overhear my parents conversations

         B
well I'm struck by the things they say

              Asus2 
it seems they traded the years for mere complications

    B                     D        E
who ever thought it could end this way

Asus2
they close the door but they can't lock it

       B
'cause something of their childhood remains

     Asus2
and they've felt it before when the man in their pocket

B                         D        E
counted the cost of their material gains
[Chorus]
C#m7           Amaj7
Children say - come what may

   Cmaj7                         D
be strong for the friends you've known

C#m7                Amaj7
but one fine day - (not) far away

        Cmaj7                D
will we remember the love we used to own

C#m7           Amaj7
Children say - children say

   Cmaj7             D
we open our minds as one

C#m7              Amaj7
as one more day - slips away

              Cmaj7                     D
why don't the dreams of the young never come to be
[Solo] Asus2 B Asus2 B D E [Verse 3]
Asus2
Well you knew what I was saying but did you know what it meant

B
when you saw that look in my eye did you know it was heaven sent

Asus2
was it all a waking dream all that time we must have spent

B                                      D                     E
well I guess it must have been somehow that feeling came and went
[Chorus]
C#m7           Amaj7
Children say - come what may

   Cmaj7                         D
be strong for the friends you've known

C#m7                Amaj7
but one fine day - (not) far away

        Cmaj7                D
will we remember the love we used to own

C#m7           Amaj7
Children say - children say

   Cmaj7             D
we open our minds as one

C#m7              Amaj7
as one more day - slips away

              Cmaj7                     D
why don't the dreams of the young never come to be
[Outro]
C#m7 Am7 D
(repeat and fade out)