Misc Musicals – The Last Five Years - Moving Too Fast (Guitar)

A7                                         D/E
   Did I just hear an alarm start ringing?

A7                                  D/E
   Did I see sirens go flying past?

A7                              A7/C#    D
   Though I don't know what tomorrow's bringing

D#m7b5       E7sus                                        D/E A7/E
I've got a singular impression things are moving too fast

A7          D           D/E   A7    D    D/E
   I'm gliding smooth as a figure skater

A7         D        D/E  C/G  G6 Bb/F D/E  
   I'm riding hot as a rocket blast

A7         D       D/E   A7   A7/C# D
   I just expected it ten years later

    D#m7b5   E7sus                                    A7
I've got a singular impression things are moving too fast

              D7
And you say, "Oh, no, Step on the brakes

                                      A7
Do whatever it takes, But stop this train

 D7                                A+
Slow, slow! The light's turing red"

            E7         A2/C#  E7/B
But I say, "No! No! Whatever I do

   A9
I barrel on through And I don't complain

    B7           B7sus
No matter what I try

     B7    E7(#9)
I'm flying full speed ahead"

A7         D         D/E    A    D    D/E
   I'm never worried to walk the wire

A7         D      D/E     C/G   G6     Bb/F D/E
   I won't do anything just "half-assed"

A7           D            D/E     A7  A7/C#  D
   But with the stakes getting somewhat higher

    D#m7b5   E7sus                                     A7  D  D/E
I've got a singular impression... things are moving too fast

A7                     A7 D D/E
   I found a woman I love

A7                            A7     D#  Dmin/E
   And I found an agent who loves me

A7
   Things might get bumpy but

 F                  Bb/F
Some people analyze every detail

 F                            Bb/F
Some people stall when they can't see the trail

 Gm7         F/A           Emin7             A13
Some people freeze out of fear that they'll fail

 Dmin   Bb/C         Eb/F Bb/F F
But I keep rollin' on

Eb/F Bb/F F                          Bb/F
         Some people can't find success with their art

 F                        Bb/F
Some people never feel love in their heart

 Gmin7       F/A          Emin7        A13
Some people can't tell the two things apart

  Dm9 Db+9 Bbmaj7/C Bb/C Fsus
But I keep  roll - in' on

Eb/F  Bb/F  Eb/F                     Bb/F
Oh...oh - maybe I can't follow through

    Eb/F  Bb/F  Gmin7     F/A              Bb2/C
But Oh...oh - what else am I supposed to do?

A
  I dreamed of writing like the high and mighty

A
Now I'm the subject of a bidding war

A7
  I met my personal Aphrodite

A7
I'm doing things I never dreamed of before

Bb7
  We start to take the next step together

Bb7
Found an apartment on Seventy-Third

B7
  The Atlantic Monthly's printing my first chapter

B7
Two thousand bucks without rewriting one word

C7
  I left Columbia and I don't regret it

Db7
  I wrote a book and Sonny Mehta read it

D7
  My heart's been stolen

Eb7
My ego's swollen

E7                     D7  A7  D7  A7
I just keep rollin' along...

             E7   E7/D        A2/C#       E7/B
And I think well, well, what else is in store?

      A7
Got all this and more before twenty-four

      B7              B7sus
It's hard not to be sure

     B7      E7(#9)
I'm spinning out of control

F7
Out of control...

Bb         Eb           Eb/F     Bb     Eb     Eb/F
   I'm feeling panicked and rushed and hurried

Bb         Eb         Eb/F   Db/Ab  Ab6    Cb/Gb  Eb/F
   I'm feeling out-maneuvered and out-classed

Bb     Eb          Eb/F   Bb  Bb/D  Eb
   But I'm so happy I can't get worried

    E      F7
About this singular impression

           Eb/F                           F  F7           Bb
I've got a singular impression things are moving too fast