Chords for Music no longer priority for Buffalo Tom

We never thought we'd be the veterans.
We always thought we were the young up-and-comers.
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When you do touring, which we essentially did for [G] 10 years,
at some point you [D] just hit a big resistance factor
and [B] everything just starts to get_
It's hard to find [N] more positives, it's easier to find more negatives.
It kind of weighs heavily.
I think we just needed to take a break
and get into other [D] things in our lives.
_ That's to [F] me _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ We left it open-ended.
We didn't make a clean break
and we didn't say we're not going to do it.
We didn't say I'll meet you back here in a year and we'll record it.
We just kind of left it open-ended and just let it evolve.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Diamonds everywhere
[F] _ Cross your heart and [C] swear
It [C] wasn't like John Lennon, you know, with John.
It's not like I lived in the Dakota
and could just go off on music when I wanted to
and that people were dying to hear from us again.
It really felt like, okay, it's a matter of really trying to
adjust your identity of [Gb] yourself
and the whole [G] Buddhist nature of who am I and what do I do
and is the self ever_
You can get really kind of existential about it, like I did.
I really said, well, do I need music in my life?
Can I just switch off and do something else?
Or is that really who I am?
_ _ _ I had a lot of hard time [F] adjusting at that time.
[B] But once I got through it all, it was nice to have a child
and just to be home and not touring.
_ [Gm] I mean, we loved to tour for two weeks.
After two weeks, it gets kind of tough.
_ Waiting for an answer
_ Well, I [Eb] waited _ 25 _
[Bb] years
[F] _ _ _ [Gm] _ The kid family thing is overwhelming [A] and it's an identity.
It's such a huge, for me, it's such a giant part of my life
that I have a hard time even sometimes thinking like _ _ _
the music part comes easy, but the identifying myself as a musician
or being part of the band anymore, and I think that's healthy.
I think it's good.
_ It's never been very unhealthy for us to be like,
oh, we're musicians, we must make a record.
But I think it's good to have something in your life that you identify with,
that you love, that everything's going well with.
And then _ have music [Eb] as another thing.
Oh, I thought that was the music. _ _ _ _
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I miss [G] sort of, _ there's definitely like,
when I see young bands or bands starting out,
I remember that feeling of like walking into a record store
and having someone say like, oh, [E] aren't you in a band?
And like, that only is a short portion of your life.
But it's that thing about identifying yourself as a musician
from your whole life, never anyone saying that,
and it's a really special feeling that only comes along once.
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Now we got back into it, and it's sort of a little cottage industry.
It just [G] sort of exists to keep us afloat and be a band and break even
or whatever, and just make the art.
It's an outlet more than a way to make a living.
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_ [Bb] Yeah.
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