Standard (EADGBE)

I can't reach the clouds for you,

I'll never touch the Sun for you,

I've never done the things

 That you need done for you.

I've streached as high as I can reach,

 I guess I'm not the one for you;

 Cause I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun for you.

 No I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun.

I can't turn back time for you,

 And make you sweet sixteen again,

And I can't turn your barren fields

 To green again.

And I won't sit around and talk

 Of how things might have been again,

 No I can't turn back time and make you young again.

I can't turn back time and make you young.

I hope you find somebody who

Can do the things I didn't do

And find a road I didn't find

And build a brighter world for you.

I hope you find somebody bold

Enough to reach and take a hold

And guide your ever changing mind

And free your ever rising soul.

But I can't. No, I can't.

(back to first verse progression)

I can't look inside your mind

And see the things you're hoping for.

And I can't help you chase the dream

You're groping for.

You say your arms are open wide,

But lord knows who they're open for.

No, I can't know your mind or chase your dreams with you.

I can't chase your dreams or know your mind.

So say goodbye, and don't look back

 I've had some happy days with you,

Sorry I can't be the one who stays with you.

And when they ask about me,

 YOu can say I was the one with you

 Who never reached the clouds or touched the sun for you.

 No, I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun.

 I guess it's done,

 I can't touch the sun for you.

(repeat the last bit as necessary, and have fun. It's a great song on their Sloppy

album, or the Shel Silverstein CD)