Things Have Changed chords by Struggle Jennings

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:

A Bm C#m Bm

Verse:

A   Bm                 C#m   Bm
Innocence gets lost in chaos
A        F#m                   E     D
Drawn to flames that light the way home
A        Bm              C#m
A broken heart made me a woman
Bm               A      F#m                    E
I'm not the same little girl since you've been gone

Chorus:

D       A           Bm
Because things have changed
      C#m         Bm
Since you've been away
A                F#m
Grew through the pain
    E               D
But love stayed the same
A      Bm
I have changed
      C#m         Bm
Since you've been away
A                F#m
Grew through the pain
    E    D
But love stayed the same

Verse 2:

      A
I got 13 years on my 13 birthday
Bm
Tears drops hit the courtroom floor
C#m
Courtroom door slammed hard
      Bm
And I felt empty, gotta search for more
A
Five years 'til I can make parole
         F#m
And time moves slow when you missin' home
   E                D
In prison clothes I sit alone, but my rock bottom's my steppin' stone
   A
My princesses, they need a king
        Bm
I gotta stand up to deserve the throne
C#m
Do better, be a better man
            Bm
So they can have a chance at that happy home
       A
Try to raise the kids in this visit room
     F#m
Keep wipin' tears from they cheekbone
               E
They said it'd be alright but it won't be
         D
Unless I change me, I gotta be strong
         A
I try to see myself through my children's eyes
     Bm
It's who I am, who I wanna be
               C#m
They said it's jail talk, and I'll be in the streets
           Bm
I'll never change my ways, I guess we're gonna see
A
See the hardest thing that I've been through
           F#m
Is watchin what my family had to go through
         E            D
Cause my go to is try somethin' new, cause that old me is just old news and

Chorus:

A           Bm
Things have changed
      C#m         Bm
Since you've been away
A                F#m
Grew through the pain
    E    D
But love stayed the same
A      Bm
I have changed
C#m               Bm
Since you've been away
A                F#m
Grew through the pain
    E    D
But love stayed the same

Bridge:

Bm           F#m            E
And time has told me always take your time
       Bm         F#m              E
Daddy, I know you worry but please ease your mind
         Bm                    F#m                 E
Guess we went through so much, made it through the other side
           Bm                 F#m                 D
What don't kill you makes you stronger, and we're so alive
E
Because

Chorus:

A           Bm
Things have changed
C#m               Bm
Since you've been away
A                F#m
Grew through the pain
    E    D
But love stayed the same
A      Bm
I have changed
C#m               Bm
Since you've been away
A                F#m
Grew through the pain
    E    D
But love stayed the same

Outro:

A Bm C#m Bm A F#m E D