To Leave Something Behind

A D A I cannot say that I know you well D A F#m But you can't lie to me with all these books that you sell D F#m A D I'm not trying to follow you to the end of the world A D A I'm just trying to leave something behind A D A Words have come from men and mouse D A F#m But I can't help thinking that I've heard the wrong crowd D F#m A D When all the water is gone my job will be too A D A And I'm trying to leave something behind D F#m A D Oh money is free but love costs more than our bread D A E And the ceiling is hard to reach D F#m A D Oh the future ahead is broken and red A D A But I'm trying to leave something behind A D A This whole world is a foreign land D A F#m We swallow the moon but we don't know our own hand D F#m A D We're running with the case but we ain't got the gold A D A Yet we're trying to leave something behind A D A My friends I believe we are at the wrong fight D A F#m And I cannot read what I did not write D F#m A D I've been to His house, but the master is gone A D A But I'd like to leave something behind A D A There is a beast who has taken my brain D A F#m You can put me to bed but you can't feel my pain D F#m A D When the machine has taken the soul from the man A D A It's time to leave something behind D F#m A D Oh money is free but love costs more than our bread D A E And the ceiling is hard to reach D F#m A D Oh the future ahead is already dead A D A So I'm trying to leave something behind A D A I got this feeling that I'm still at the shore D A F#m And pockets don't know what it means to be poor D F#m A D I can get through the wall if you give me a door A D A So I can leave something behind A D A Oh wisdom is lost in the trees somewhere D A F#m You're not going to find it in some mental gray hair D F#m A D It's locked up from those who hurry ahead A D A And it's time to leave something behind D F#m A D Oh money is free but love costs more than our bread D A E And the ceiling is hard to reach D F#m A D When my son is a man he will know what I meant A D A I was just trying to leave something behind A D A I was just trying to leave something behind