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F6 G Bb F F6 G Bb F F6 G Bb F Time went so slow when you weren't around F6 G Bb F No one could lend help, mind was unsound F6 G Bb F The pieces of my youth decayed F6 G Bb F F G Bb F And every tie I'd break trapped for me laid F6 G Bb F F6 G Bb F I never thought of your point of view F6 G Bb F Did you love me? I hope you still do F6 G Bb F But things have changed since those simple times F6 G Bb F The past is always of simple minds C Dm Oh someone, open up the casket Bb Pull back the curtains and let the sun shine in C Dm Oh we can’t breathe this dust any longer F6 G Bb F Yet we don’t wander F6 G Bb F F6 G Bb F F6 G Bb F F6 G Bb F F6 G Bb F You hid your mind off, locked in a cage F6 G Bb F As thoughts were insane, out of your range F6 G Bb F And yet you walk on, as if you were free F6 G Bb F F G Bb F You made the chains that bind on your feet F6 G Bb F F6 G Bb F The chains have wound me up in a mess F6 G Bb F But that’s okay, I needed the rest F6 G Bb F As things untangle outside to breathe F6 G Bb F Is this what happy really can mean? C Dm Oh someone, open up the casket Bb Pull back the curtains and let the sun shine in C Dm Oh we can’t breathe this dust any longer F6 G Bb F F6 G Bb F Yet we don’t wander, yet we don’t wander C Dm Bb C Dm Bb F6 G Bb F Time went so slow when you weren't around F6 G Bb F No one could lend help, mind was unsound F6 G Bb F But time moves on and I cannot stay F6 G Bb F F So I’ll move on and burn it away