Intro: F Fsus4 F C x2

   F
If I went home tomorrow
        C    
I would be obliged to borrow
  Bb
A thousand little things I do not need

   F
My folks, they know me well
           C
But surely they'd begin to tell
  Bb
I love them but their words I do not heed

Gm         Bb           F            C
I read the books then I burned their pages
Dm        F               C
Found the birds screaming in their cages
Bb            Dm           F
Where are the young voices of all ages?
Dm      C               Dm
I would die to hear them sing

Bb F

          F
You don't have to go the lonely way
        Gm
That directs your heart with sorrow
    Dm                           Bb F
And leads your mind in disarray
         F
Don't pretend that you don't know
Dm C         Bb
25 years and nothing to show

F Fsus4 F C x2

F
People from my town
             C
They stop to look me up and down
    Bb
And say how marvelous it must be

     F       
They lament the lack of money
           C
And cackle about some sweet, young honey
    Bb
The one they're sure is chasing after me

Gm             Bb            F        C
Then I see the change come into their faces
         Dm         F        C
They say, "I wish I knew such splendid places"
   Bb        Dm               F
But life's become a string of whiffs and traces
Dm        C               Dm
And in my head I hear them sing


Bb F

          F
You don't have to go the lonely way
        Gm
That directs your heart with sorrow
    Dm                           Bb F
And leads your mind in disarray
         F
Don't pretend that you don't know
Dm C         Bb
25 years and nothing to show

F Fsus4 F C x2

Dm C Bb F \ x2
Dm Bb F C /


Dm    C Bb    F    F   C     \ x6
Don't believe it's crumbling /

Dm C
          Bb
You don't have to go the lonely way
        F           C     Dm C
But you go there anyway
          Bb                       C C C C   
You don't have to go the lonely way, whoa