| Looking Through Time | ||
| By Tom Vance | ||
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Key of G |
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| G C G C D G | ||
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1. |
My Mom passed away a short time ago and we’re selling off the old family home; | |
| C D G Em Am7 D | ||
| My Dad has been gone for a number of years, and now I feel somewhat alone. | ||
| G C G C D G | ||
| Sorting through the things that are left behind, the letters and the pictures from the past. | ||
| C D G Em Am7 D | ||
| There’s my grandmother’s wooden keepsake box, and questions I can no longer ask. | ||
| G C G C D G | ||
| And I look at all the photographs, at the faces looking through the years; | ||
| C D G Em Am7 D | ||
| The lives that were there, have all passed on, with their joys, their hopes and their fears. | ||
| C G | ||
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Chorus |
Now they’re looking through time, they’re looking through time, | |
| C D | ||
| As the moments turned into years; | ||
| C Em | ||
| The lives that they lived, have all passed away, | ||
| C D G | ||
| Now they’re just faces, looking through time. | ||
| Instrumental | ||
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2. |
And I look at all the old photographs, at the faces looking through the years; | |
| I wonder what my great grandchildren will think, when the end of the century is near. | ||
| It seems like we get so wrapped up in our lives, so many unimportant things rule; | ||
| But what will it all mean when the years have gone by, and we become the faces, | ||
| Looking through time. | ||
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Chorus |
We’ll be looking through time, we’ll be looking through time, | |
| As the moments all turn into years. | ||
| The lives that we live will have all passed away, | ||
| And we’ll be the faces, looking through time. | ||
| Words and music by Tom Vance, © November, 2000. | ||
| To the memory of all of my family who have gone before me. |