Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years(1989) Ab Fm

Words & Music by Mike Rutherford & B.A. Robertson
From The Album "Living Years"
Charts: US/IRE/AUS/CAN No.1 UK No.2
NZ No.11 GER No.13 NL No.20
Kar by Geoffrey Carter 4th June 2024
For PC MIDI Player sounds best with Timbres of Heaven
Sound fonts loaded via Coolsoft Virtual Midi Synth
Available free from www.midkar.com

Every generation...
Blames the one before...
And all of their frustrations...
Come beating on your door...

I know that I'm a pris'ner...
To all my Father held so dear...
I know that I'm a hostage...
To all his hopes and fears...
I just wish I could have told him...
in the living years...

Oh~~...

Crumpled bits of paper~...
Filled with imperfect thought...
Stilted conversations...
I'm afraid that's all we've got...

You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense~..
We all talk a dif'rent language...
Talking in defence~...

Say it loud~...
Woh ooh say it clear...
You can listen as well as you hear...
It's too late...
Woh ooh when we die...
To admit we don't see eye to eye...

So we open up a quarrel...
Between the present and the past...
We only sacrifice the future...
It's the bitterness that lasts...

So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate..
It may have a new perspective...
On a different date..
And if you don't give up
and don't give in
You may just be OKay...

So say it, sat it, say it loud~...
Woh ooh say it clear~....
You can listen as well as you hear~...
Because it's too late...
it's too late...
Woh ooh when we die...
To admit we don't see eye to eye...

I wasn't there that morning...
When my Father passed away...
I didn't get to tell him...
All the things I had to say~...

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him...
in the living years...

So say it, sat it, say it loud~...
Woh ooh say it clear~....
You can listen as well as you hear~..
Yeah Yeah!...
it's too late...
It's too late when we die...
To admit we don't see eye to eye....

So say it, sat it, say it loud~...
Come on say it clear~....
You can listen as well as you hear~..
Yeah Yeah!...
it's too late...
It's too late when we die...
To admit we don't see eye to eye....

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Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years(1989) Ab Fm
Words & Music by Mike Rutherford & B.A. Robertson
From The Album "Living Years"
Charts: US/IRE/AUS/CAN No.1 UK No.2
NZ No.11 GER No.13 NL No.20
Sequence by Geoffrey Carter 4th June 2024
For PC MIDI Player sounds best with Timbres of Heaven
Sound fonts loaded via Coolsoft Virtual Midi Synth
Available free from www.midkar.com
Strings
Violin
Viola
Violoncello
Contrabass
Pad Synthesizer
Pad Synthesizer
Electric Guitar
Drumset
Track 18
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Track 21
Track 22
Track 23
Voice track doubled