Time Trades Chords & Lyrics by Jeffrey Lewis

Time Trades

guitar chords lyrics

Jeffrey Lewis

D A E x4


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

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
D A E
'Cause that's the only thing that time will leave you with


D A E
'Cause time is gonna take so much away
D A E
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


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


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


D A E
Yeah time is gonna take so much away,
D A E
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
D A E
'Cause that's the thing that time will leave you with.


D A E x4


A C E
And maybe that's why they call a trade a trade,
A C E
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.


A E
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


D A E
You have no choice you have to pay time's price
D A E
But you can use the price to buy you something nice
D A E
Something you can only buy with lots of time
D A E
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
A E
A 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


D A E
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

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


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


A C E x2

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