When I Was Older piano leadsheet with chords

When I was old

er, I was a sail

or on an o pen sea.

But now I'm un der wa

ter and my skin is pal

er than it should ev er be.

Mm.

I'm on my back a gain,

dream ing of a time and place where you and I re main the best of friends.

E ven af ter all this ends,

can we pre tend?

I'm on my,

I'm on my back a gain.

It's seem ing more and more like all we ev er do is see how far it bends be fore it breaks in half and then

we bend it back a gain.

Guess I got caught in the mid dle of it.

Yes, I've been taught, got a lit tle of it in my blood,

in my blood.

Mem o ries burn like a for est fire.

Heav y rain turns an y fu n'ral pyre to mud

in the flood.

When I was old

er, I was a sail

or on an o pen sea.

But now I'm un der wa

ter and my skin is pal

er than it should ev er be.

I'm watch ing mov ies back to back in black and white.

I nev er seen an y bod y do it like I do it an y bet ter.

Been go ing o ver you,

I'm o ver due for new en deav ors.

No bod y lone ly like I'm lone ly and I don't know wheth er you'd real ly like it in the lime light.

You'd sym pa thize with all the bad guys.

I'm still a vic tim in my own right,

but I'm the vil lain in my own eyes.

yeah.

When I was old

er, I was a sail

or on an o pen sea.