Graham Parker Back in Time Lyrics:
Intro Em Am Am7

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You stop in the old cafe where
you used to play pinball
C Am
And look for the air-raid shelter but
it's gone and the cafe seems so
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small and all the gardens That had
trees and stolen apples
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now have small businesses
flourishing in cinder blocks
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Then they will call your name and
hand you a gold watch
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Then they will call your name but it
doesn't sound like much
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And you'll never discover why it's like an old lover
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you can't touch anymore It doesn't mean much anymore
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when you go back in time back in time

You head down to the local try to find a focal point
A scratch in the wallpaper but it's
all been wallpapered over
Down at the newsagents it's all pornography
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And you try to get high again but it's
like time-lapse photography
Then they will call your name and hand you a medal
Or something more practical like a whistling kettle
and it'll test your metal Just try to keep grinning
knowing that this feeling is
Indulgence worse than sinning
trying to go back in time

Instrumental section (chords like
verse but not as many.)

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Photographs with a glossy finish
letters lovers never finished
C Am (G)
And there in a dusty drawer a necktie you once wore
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And a girl you tried to court made you
feel about two feet short
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Where is she now today? What would she have to say?
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Then they will call your name and hand you a pension
G Em Am C
A bottle of pills that guarantee life extension
G Em C Am
and give you a mention in the
local boy makes good section
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But all the old news is like print
stains across your mind
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when you go back in time

Yes all this old news is just print
stains across your mind
when you go back in time, Back in
time (repeat and fade)
Lyrics: Back in Time, Graham Parker [end]