Intro: GAmGCVerse:
GAm
Today
GCG
You felt so numb.
AmGC
All your nerves came undone.
GAm
You're running to a halt.
GCG
Your days are much more finite.
AmG
They speed by like railway cars
C
So we're singing,
Chorus:
G
"Won't let tonight pass me by.
Em
Won't see with paralyzed eyes.
DG
No, I won't be a slave to time."
Verse:
GAm
Tonight
GCG
We fight back
GAmGC
Swollen fists and swallowed pride.
GAmG
Tonight we rock; we'll smash it up,
CG
Shout at the moon, laugh at ourselves.
AmG
The hand of fate takes it away
CG
We're staring life right in the face.
Chorus:
G
Won't let tonight pass me by.
Em
Won't see with paralyzed eyes.
DG
No, I won't be a slave to time.
CG
Won't let tonight pass me by.
DEm
Won't see with paralyzed eyes.
D
No I won't, no, I won't because
CGAmC
Time is so precious for us all.
GDG
Time is so precious for us all.
AmC
Time is so precious for us all.
Verse:
CGC
Do you gauge your life
GDC
By the fleeting moments
GCGD
That pass you by?
GAmG
Tonight we rock; we'll smash it up,
CG
Shout at the moon, laugh at ourselves.
AmG
Tonight we rock; we'll smash it up,
C
Sing with the moonlight.
Chorus:
G
Won't let tonight pass me by.
Em
Won't see with paralyzed eyes.
DG
No, I won't be a slave to time.
CG
Won't let tonight pass me by.
DEm
Won't see with paralyzed eyes.
D
No I won't, no, I won't because
Outro:
CGAmC
Time is so precious for us all.
GDG
Time is so precious for us all.
AmC
Time is so precious for us all.
GDC
Time is so precious for us all.
GAmC
Time is so precious for us all.
GDC
Time might not wait 'til tomorrow
GAmC
Time is so precious for us all
G
Time might not make it home tonight
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.