Long Long Time

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It's been a long, long, long, long
D                       E                       B
Long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time
            E                       D                       E                       B
It's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time

[Verse 1]
             E                                   D
When I was a kid, I used to draw airplanes, with stars and bars shooting down airplanes,
   E                              D
adorned with hammers and sickles
           E                                             D
I bought a hundred water guns so I could save the world, saving my lunch money
     E                                                D
 and stealing my father's quarters, dimes, and nickels
E                                       D                                              E
I discovered religion watching Luke Skywalker rescue Princess Leia and destroying the Death Star
                   D
by letting go and closing his eyes
      E                                         D
And I devoured comic books, Greek colored mythologies taught me right and wrong,
           E                 D
and if you believe, you can fly


[Chorus]
            E
It's been a long, long, long, long
D                       E                       B
Long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time
            E                       D                       E                       B
It's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time


[Verse 2]
E                                    D                                           E
I remember listening to songs about trains and feeling the rush of wonder at the possibility 
that the world
                  B
 was infinite and accessible all at the same time.
E                                        D                                               E
And then it was songs about highways and born to be wild and little red corvette and the road 
went on
               B
forever in my mind
             E                                               D
But now it's clogged bumper to bumper with stinking SUVs and two-story pickup trucks that can 
drive
      E                                                   B
 over anything except the two-story pickup truck right in front of it
              E                                    D
Not even the highways look the same, Starbucks and 711s and Walmarts jam the feeder roads.
E                                           B
    We don't live around this mess, we live under it


[Chorus]
            E
It's been a long, long, long, long
D                       E                       B
Long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time
            E                       D                       E                       B
It's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time (Since 
I felt fine)

[Verse 3]
E                                          D                            E
Now all the songs are about gangsters and guns and the TV speeds by at 100 deaths an hour and
                                                B
everyone wants to pull off the crime of the century
                      E                                    D
Steal two hundred gazillion dollars, enough to buy myself an island and build a real 
honest-to-God
  E                            B
 train on it for no one but me
         E                                               D
And get away with it. Get away with it. We Americans are freedom-loving people
     E                                 B
and nothing says freedom like getting away with it
              E                                     D
We went from Billy the Kid to Richard Nixon, Enron, X-on, O.J. Simpson...
            E                                                     B
We used to dream about heroes, but now it's just how to beat the system
E                                          D                                            
So where to we go to dream now? Up on the roof of the projects, straining through the city 
             E
lights to see
                                      B
if they've built golden arches on the moon yet?
     E                                   D                               E                   
Self-medicated, Half-sedated, trying our best to stay distracted, living life according to 
      B
the TV set
E                                    D                             E
Corporations owning nations, telling us "don't change the station, it's the only safe way to win
 the human
B
race."
  E                                                D                       E
I wonder how the world sees us, rich beyond compare, powerful without equal, a spoiled, drunk,
                     B
15-year-old waving a gun in their face


[Chorus]
            E
It's been a long, long, long, long
D                       E                       B
Long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time
            E                       D                       E                       B
It's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time
            E
It's been a long, long, long, long
D                       E                       B
Long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time
            E                       D                       E                       B
It's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time (Since 
I felt fine)