Pastime Paradise    (video)    (intro)

 

    F - Dm - E - Am (3x)

 

    F                             Dm                             E                   Am

1.      Been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise,

F                            Dm                            E                   Am

    been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.

F                          Dm

    Been wasting most their time,

           E                        Am

    glorifying days long gone behind,

F                         Dm

    been wasting most their days,

              E                                    Am

    in remembrance of ignorance oldest praise.

 

                F        Dm          E         Am

Tell me, who of them will come to be?

              F       Dm          E          Am    

How many of them are you and me?

         F      - Dm            G         - Em          F       - Dm           G     - Em                                            

Dissipation,       race relations,        consolation,        segregation,

             F           Em               Dm            Em

dispensation, isolation, exploitation, mutilation,

      F                   Em                 Dm               E

mutations, miscreation, confirmation to the evils of the world.

 

    F                            Dm                             E                 Am

2.     Been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.

F                           Dm                             E                  Am

    been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.

F                      Dm

    Been looking in their minds,

                 E                         Am

    for the day that sorrow's gone from time.

F                             Dm

    They keep telling of the day,

                      E                           Am

    when the Saviour of love will come to stay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                F        Dm          E         Am

Tell me, who of them will come to be?

              F       Dm          E          Am    

How many of them are you and me?

              F      - Dm              G         - Em           F      - Dm         G     - Em

Proclamation        of race relations,         consolation,       integration,

         F                 Em                  Dm                    Em

verification of revelations, acclamation, world salvation,

      F                  Em                Dm                E

vibrations, stimulation, confirmation to the peace of the world.

 

     F                             Dm                           E                   Am

3.      Been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise,

F                            Dm                            E                  Am

    been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.

F                                         Dm                             E                 Am

    They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise,

F                                        Dm                            E                 Am

    they've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise,

 

    F                                            Dm

4.     We've been spending too much of our lives,

             E                   Am

    living in a Pastime Paradise.

F                  Dm                             E                  Am

    Let's start living our lives, living for the future paradise !

F            Dm                         E                  Am

    Praise to our lives, living for the future paradise !

F                  Dm                             E                    Am

    Shame to anyone's lives, living in the pastime paradise !

 

+  Dm - E - Am

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Stevie Wonder)