The Living Years Karaoke - Mike and The Mechanics

This title is a cover version of The Living Years as made famous by Mike and The Mechanics

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With backing vocals (with or without vocals in the KFN version)

Same as the original tempo: 97.89 BPM

In the same key as the original: A♭

Duration: 05:43 - Sample at: 01:47

Release date: 1988
Genres: Pop, Soft Rock, In English
Original songwriter: B.A. Robertson, Mike Rutherford

All files available for download are backing tracks, they're not the original music.

Lyrics The Living Years

Every generation blames the one before

And all of their frustrations come beating on your door

I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear

I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears

I just wish

I could have told him in the living years

Oh oh crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thought

Stilted conversations

I'm afraid that's all we've got

You say you just don't see it he says it's perfect sense

You just can't get agreement in this present tense

We all talk a different language talking in defense

Say it loud

Oh oh say it clear

As well as you hear

It's too late

Oh when we die

We don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel between the present and the past

We only sacrifice the future it's the bitterness that lasts

So don't yield to the fortunes you sometimes see as fate

It may have a new perspective on a different date

And if you don't give up and don't give in you may just be okay

To say it, say it, say it loud

Oh oh say it clear

As well as you hear because it's too late it's too late

Oh when we die

We don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning when my father passed away

I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit later that same year

I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's new born tears

I just wish

I could have told him in the living years

To say it, say it, say it loud

Oh oh say it clear

As well as you hear yeah hey hey hey

It's too late

It's too late when we die

We don't see eye to eye, hey to say it, say it, say it loud say it loud

Come on say it clear

Don't give up don't give in

I don't know what it's too late come on say it

Say it loud, say it loud

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The Living Years Karaoke - Mike and The Mechanics

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