The Older We Get Chords by Hothouse Flowers

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_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] As a child [D] touching eight, _ we think that it's so. _
That life, [F] love, and everything is easy to know.
The old, [D] they can't reach us.
Their ways are not ours.
Though they [F] followed our futures, our freedom they bore.
The older we [D] get, the farther we see. _
The more [F] we mean to each other, the more you mean to me.
I believe [D] in these people.
I believe in this age.
Though I hear [F] about torment and life's lonely page.
Yet still [D] we walk strong.
We remember we're free.
For the truth [F] we are given.
For what we believe in.
The [D] older we get, the farther we see.
The [F] more we mean to each other, the more you mean to me.
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I have [D] searched out the answers to the mysteries of the laws.
Though [F] still I find barriers, yet still I would fall.
But I [D] still struggle.
_ The truth that I seek.
But I [F] must remain strong.
For the lonely, the weak, the old.
The [D] older we get, the farther we see.
The [F] more we [C] mean to each other, the more [F] you mean to me.
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[Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
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The older we get, the farther we see.
The [F] more we [C] mean to each other, the [F] more you mean to me.
The older [D] we get, _ the farther we see. _
The more [F] we mean [C] to each other, the more you mean to me.
The older [D] we get, the farther we see.
The more [F] we mean to each other, the more you _ [G]
mean to [D] me. _ _ _ _ _