Pastime Paradise
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)