Time Trades

D             A            E
Time is gonna take so much away
              D                
But there's a way that time can 
 A           E
offer you a trade
D             A            E
Time is gonna take so much away
              D                
But there's a way that time can 
 A           E
offer you a trade


          A                        
You gotta do something that you can
     E
 get nicer at,
          A                        
You gotta do something that you can
     E
 get wiser at,
           A                       
You better do something that you 
      E
can get better at
                  D               
'Cause that's the only thing that 
A                   E
time will leave you with


       D             A            
'Cause time is gonna take so much 
E
away
              D                
But there's a way that time can 
 A           E
offer you a trade


            A                   
It might be cabaret, it could be 
 E
poetry,
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It might be trying to make a new 
       E
happy family,
   A                        
It could be violin repair or 
 E
chemistry,
            D                   
But if it's something that takes 
 A                   E
lots of time that's good


       D             A            
'Cause time is gonna take so much 
E
away
              D                
But there's a way that time can 
 A           E
offer you a trade.


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             D                     
Because your looks are gonna leave 
   E
you
         D                       E
And your city's gonna change too
         D                   
And your shoes are gonna wear 
         E
through


     D             A          
Yeah time is gonna take so much 
  E
away,
              D                A  
But there's a way that you can 
          E
offer time a trade.


          A                        
You gotta do something that you can
     E
 get smarter at,
          A                     
You gotta do something you might 
           E
just be a starter at,
           A                       
You better do something that you 
      E
can get better at
       D                     A    
'Cause that's the thing that time 
               E
will leave you with.


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          A                   C
And maybe that's why they call a 
          E
trade a trade,
               A              C   
Like when they say you should go 
           E
and learn a trade;
              A                C  
The thing you do don't have to be 
           E
to learn a trade,
                   A             
Just get something back from time 
     C            E
for all it takes away.


            A                      
It could be many things, it could 
  E
be anything,
            A                  
It could be expertise in Middle 
         E
Eastern traveling,
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Something to slowly sow the balance
        E
 life's unraveling


            D                  A  
You have no choice you have to pay
        E
 time's price
            D                A    
But you can use the price to buy 
             E
you something nice
          D            A          
Something you can only buy with 
      E
lots of time
               D                
So when you're old you blow some 
 A                E
whippersnapper's mind.


            A                      
It might be researching a book that
           E
 takes you seven years
            A                      
A book that helps to make the path 
           E
we take to freedom clear
                A              
And when you're done you see it 
                E
started with a good idea


         D                  
One good idea could cost you 
 A                 E
thousands of your days
              D                 
But it's just time that you'd be 
 A           E
spending anyway

            D                  A  
You have no choice you have to pay
        E
 time's price
            D                A    
But you can use the price to buy 
             E
you something nice


A    C            E
  So I've decided recently
A    C                 E
  To try to trade more decently