A Matter Of Time Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

EmYou're looking for a way out

 I can feel it Bm A Em

EmCome on, show me where it hurts

 Maybe I can heal it Bm A Em

EmYour feelings are your own

 Now you keep 'em under lock and key Bm A Em

EmYou got me drivin' through the streets

 For an answer to the mystery Bm A Em

 The Gworld's still Dweak on Charleston AAvenue

 OutGside that vDacant Starlight MAotel I see you

 LaGughing with your gDirlfriends

 Not a cAare in the world, not a bDurden Aon your Emmind

EmIt was a matter of time

EmThere's a panic in this house

 and it's bound to surface Bm A Em

EmJust walkin' through the front door

 makes me nervousBm A Em

EmIt's creepin' up the floorboards,

 got me wondering where I stand Bm A Em

EmI cannot put out the fire,

 I got a book of matches in my hand Bm A Em

GWhen we first Dmet, headstrong and Afilled with doubt

GMade just enough hustling Dtables that summer to Atake you out

 I was Gfallin' back on forDever when you Atold me about your hDeart

 You laid it Aon the lEmine

GLaughing with your Dgirlfriends

 Not a cAare in the world, not a Dburden Aon yGour mind

(You laid it on the line)

GIt was just a mAatter, It was a DmatteAr of Gtime

 We Gfound ourselves a Aplace

 We beloDng in it forGever

 Ain't that Dwhat it's all aAbout?

 Make the Gpromise and keep Ait

 Come Dhell or high watGer

 We'd fDigurAe it ouGt

 It was the Gnight, it was the Amoon

 It was the Dgreen grass in the Ggarden

 The Gvictory and the Asin

GI know you're weary, Alook at me

DFlailin' in the Gcorner

 Here's the Gtowel

AGo on, throw it Gin

GIt was a Dmatter of Gtime

GCan't you see that it's Dtearing me up inAside?

GLook what's laying at our fAeet

 That's the Gwreckage of broken dAreams

 And Dburned out A

GAnd it's here Aon our sGtreet