Until The Grass Gets Greener

Am C C F For twenty winters I was cold, Am C C F and on my heart there settled snow. Am C C F The darkest places I would roam, Am C F C looking for a medicine for my soul. Am C C F My friends and I would chase the stars, Am C C F and from those battles we're still scarred. Am C C F We'd feed ourselves from the tombs Am C F C and the dungeons 'neath the city loom. Am C C F And I'd often pray as I roamed the street Am C C F that an angel might fall at my feet, Am C C F that every time the morning came, Am C F C a blanket of ice lay on my brain. Am C C F As the city burned in the rebel scream, Am C C F from my attic window I could dream, Am C C F and I told myself to give it time, Am C F C 'til the grass gets greener on our side Am C C F In early spring when the lambs are still blind, Am C C F I walked across this land of mine, Am C C F and the wheel as wild as a foreign land, Am C F C I took my first steps as a man. Am C C F In a sleepy town, I stopped to rest Am C C F where the winds hit heavy along the cliffs. Am C C F That's where I saw her standing there Am C F C with big brown eyes and long brown hair; Am C C F Where she looked at me with a face so kind, Am C C F like I'd known her since the beginning of time. Am C C F And we fell into another tense, Am C F C where the machines of war don't make no sense; Am C C F where the money's as empty as the barrel of a gun; Am C C F where the winter never seemed to come. Am C C F Well I don't need money when I've got your eyes, Am C C F 'til the grass gets greener on our side. Am C C F Well I'd build you a house by the sea Am C C F with a blue and white door and an apple tree, Am C C F and from there we'll see the summer's by, Am C F C taking or leaving the world outside; Am C C F as them politicians come and go, Am C C F and they'll build their empires and their roads. Am C C F We'll hide behind the rolling hills, Am C F C and they'll hide behind their dollar bills, Am C C F and they'll claim that they are law, Am C C F and all they've ever had's them cannon balls, Am C C F which they fire through the setting sun. Am C F C The sun doesn't care what they have done. Am C C F We'll bury the ground beneath our feet, Am C C F for our blue and white door and our apple tree, Am C C F and I'll take care of your worried mind Am C F C until the grass gets greener on our side Am C C F And if our grass stays golden brown, Am C C F from the shadows cast upon the ground, Am C C F buy me a brush and a tin of green dye, Am C F C and I'll paint the grass 'neath the Autumn sky. Am C C F And if a stranger rests between our hearts, Am C C F if death should ever do us part, Am C C F and our molecules turn into dust, Am C F C we'll travel through this universe, Am C C F and in a thousand trillion years, Am C C F on a fire of planet through the stratosphere, Am C C F where you and I will be together again, Am C F C because love doesn't care about time and space. Am C C F But instead of humans, we will be Am C C F two little rocks on a windswept beach, Am C C F and we'll sit there for the rest of time Am C F C 'til the grass gets greener on our side.