Time Trades chords by Jeffrey Lewis

Chords with lyrics

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Time is gonna take so much away
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But there's a way that time can offer you a trade
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Time is gonna take so much away
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But there's a way that time can offer you a trade


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You gotta do something that you can get nicer at,
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You gotta do something that you can get wiser at,
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You better do something that you can get better at
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'Cause that's the only thing that time will leave you with

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'Cause time is gonna take so much away
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But there's a way that time can offer you a trade


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It might be cabaret, it could be poetry,
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It might be trying to make a new happy family,
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It could be violin repair or chemistry,
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But if it's something that takes lots of time that's good


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'Cause time is gonna take so much away
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But there's a way that time can offer you a trade.


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Because your looks are gonna leave you
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And your city's gonna change too
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And your shoes are gonna wear through

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Yeah time is gonna take so much away,
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But there's a way that you can offer time a trade.


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You gotta do something that you can get smarter at,
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You gotta do something you might just be a starter at,
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You better do something that you can get better at
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'Cause that's the thing that time will leave you with.


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And maybe that's why they call a trade a trade,
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Like when they say you should go and learn a trade;
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The thing you do don't have to be to learn a trade,
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Just get something back from time for all it takes away.


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It could be many things, it could be anything,
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It could be expertise in Middle Eastern traveling,
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Something to slowly sow the balance life's unraveling


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You have no choice you have to pay time's price
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But you can use the price to buy you something nice
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Something you can only buy with lots of time
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So when you're old you blow some whippersnapper's mind.


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It might be researching a book that takes you seven years
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A augmentedA book that helps to make the path we take to freedom clear
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And when you're done you see it started with a good idea


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One good idea could cost you thousands of your days
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But it's just time that you'd be spending anyway

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You have no choice you have to pay time's price
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But you can use the price to buy you something nice


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 So I've decided recently
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 To try to trade more decently


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