Tom: E
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 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 E
So where to we go to dream now? Up on the roof of the projects, straining through the city lights to see
B
if they've built golden arches on the moon yet?
E D E B
Self-medicated, Half-sedated, trying our best to stay distracted, living life according to 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)
