Next Year Chords by Marika Hackman

[G#] _ [F#m] _ [G#] _ [D] _ [G#] _ [F#] _ _ [G#] _
[F#m] _ _ _ Oh, father time, grow me, [G#] change me, age and shirt, the infant [F#m] skin that was mine.
Did you hear the [D] wind howling, [G#] growling?
She knows something, [D] she is [F#m] older than I.
[C#] _ _ _ [F] Progress [E] is slow on [F#m] this high, high that I grow.
[B] I'll never [D] learn my [F#m] style.
_ _ _ Into the dry, [G#] constant motion, that's what's [Dm] pulsing every second [F#m] we die.
[B] As do [F#m] the sun [D] [G#] burning, heaving, blowing, [F#m] heating, fast announcing the sky.
_ _ [C#m] Oh, [C#] you call, [D] like butter [A] for the soul, but I believe [C#] your blood [F#m] and ask.
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [G#] _
[F#m] _ _ _ Oh, father time, [G#] rock me to sleep, [C#] I'm not ready, [F#m] can we stay for a while?
Listen to the wind [Bm] [D] melody, [C#] now I'm calling, [F#m] she's alive, I'm_
_ [C#] Listen to me to [C#m] sleep, in [F#m] my mother she will be, [C#m] I'll remember [Bm] to hide from [F#m] her.
_ _ [C#m] I hate you, [C#] and [D] [A] you're human, cat or cow, I am not [C#] a child quite [F#m] yet.
_ _ [A] I am [C#] not a child quite [F#m] yet.
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
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