A Week From Today

Em D C D G C Time is a funny thing you know D G C No matter where you are it comes and goes D G C G I've lived my life one day at a time Em D C Time is all I've had and all I know G C Home is a state of mind it's said D G C Four walls and a roof inside your head D G To some it might seem strange, C G but I'm too damn old to change Em D C Now the warden says the state requires my bed G D G It's been fifty years since they sent me here C D I had forty-nine more to go G C But a week from today D G C They'll open this gate for good G C And I'll have to walk away Em D G But Lord knows I'd stay if I could Guitar Solo C D G C D G C G Em D C G D G C D G C D G C G C Em D G C G C I won't last a day out there alone D G C This prison cell's the only home I've known D G The world outside has changed, C G but the one inside remains Em D C I'll have to find a way to get back home G D G It's been fifty years since they sent me here C D I had forty-nine more to go G C But a week from today D G C They'll open this gate for good G C And I'll have to walk away Em D G But Lord knows I'd stay if I could C But a week from today D G C They'll open this gate for good G C And I'll have to walk away Em D G But Lord knows I'd stay if I could G C D G C G C Em D G