Verse 1:
[ A
]
I cannot say that I
[ D
]
know you
[ A
]
well
But you
[ D
]
can't lie to
[ A
]
me with all these
[ F#m
]
books that you sell
I'm not
[ D
]
trying to
[ F#m
]
follow you to the
[ A
]
end of the
[ D
]
world
I'm just
[ A
]
trying to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
Verse 2:
[ A
]
Words have come from
[ D
]
men and
[ A
]
mouth
But I can't
[ D
]
help thinking
[ A
]
that I've
[ F#m
]
heard the wrong crowd
When
[ D
]
all the
[ F#m
]
water is gone my
[ A
]
job will be
[ D
]
too
And I'm just
[ A
]
trying to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
Chorus:
Oh
[ D
]
money is
[ F#m
]
free but love costs
[ A
]
more than our
[ D
]
bread
And the
[ D
]
ceiling is
[ A
]
hard to
[ E
]
reach
Oh the
[ D
]
future
[ F#m
]
ahead is
[ A
]
broken and
[ D
]
red
And I'm
[ A
]
trying to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
Verse 3:
[ A
]
This whole world is a
[ D
]
foreign
[ A
]
land
We
[ D
]
swallow the
[ A
]
moon but we don't know our own
[ F#m
]
hand
We're
[ D
]
running with the
[ F#m
]
case but we ain't
[ A
]
got the
[ D
]
gold
And we're
[ A
]
trying to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
Verse 4:
[ A
]
My friends I believe we are
[ D
]
at the wrong
[ A
]
fight
And I
[ D
]
cannot
[ A
]
read what I did not
[ F#m
]
write
I've
[ D
]
been to His
[ F#m
]
house, but the
[ A
]
master is
[ D
]
gone
But I'd
[ A
]
like to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
Verse 5:
[ A
]
There is a beast who has
[ D
]
taken my
[ A
]
brain
You can
[ D
]
put me to
[ A
]
bed but you can't feel my
[ F#m
]
pain
When the
[ D
]
machine has
[ F#m
]
taken the
[ A
]
soul from the
[ D
]
man
It's
[ A
]
time to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
Chorus:
Oh
[ D
]
money is
[ F#m
]
free but love costs
[ A
]
more than our
[ D
]
bread
And the
[ D
]
ceiling is
[ A
]
hard to
[ E
]
reach
Oh the
[ D
]
future
[ F#m
]
ahead is
[ A
]
broken and
[ D
]
red
But I'm
[ A
]
trying to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
Verse 6:
[ A
]
I got this feeling that I'm
[ D
]
still at the
[ A
]
shore
And
[ D
]
pockets don't
[ A
]
know what it means to be
[ F#m
]
poor
I can get
[ D
]
through the
[ F#m
]
wall if you
[ A
]
give me a
[ D
]
door
So
[ A
]
I can leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
Verse 7:
[ A
]
Oh wisdom is lost in the
[ D
]
trees
[ A
]
somewhere
You're
[ D
]
not going to
[ A
]
find it in some
[ F#m
]
mental gray hair
It's
[ D
]
locked up from
[ F#m
]
those who
[ A
]
hurry
[ D
]
ahead
And it's
[ A
]
time to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
Chorus:
Oh
[ D
]
money is
[ F#m
]
free but love costs
[ A
]
more than our
[ D
]
bread
And the
[ D
]
ceiling is
[ A
]
hard to
[ E
]
reach
When my
[ D
]
son is a
[ F#m
]
man he will
[ A
]
know what I
[ D
]
meant
I was just
[ A
]
trying to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind
I was just
[ A
]
trying to leave
[ D
]
something
[ A
]
behind