How You've Grown — 10,000 Maniacs
Chords and lyrics for How You've Grown by 10,000 Maniacs (key of E).
Intro
[A/E]
Verse 1
My how you've grown, I remember that face from the childhood days.
Just wait and see, I remember those words and how they chided me.
When patient [E5]was the [A5/E]hardest thing [E]to be.
Chorus
[F#] [B]
Because we [E]can't [Esus2]make up for [C#m/G#]the [Emaj7]time [C#m/E]that we've [E/B]lost, [B]I [E]must let [B]these memories [G#m]provide.
Verse 2
[A5] [Asus2] [E]
The little girl can stop her [Am]world to [E/G#]wait for me.
[C#m] [F#m] [E]
I should have known more, at your age in the string of days the years gone.
[C#m7]But [E]in that [A]space of [E/G#]time it takes so long.
Chorus
[C#m][E/B]Because we [B]can't [E]make up for the time [C#m/E]that we've [E/B]lost, I must let [F#]these memories [C#m]provide.
Bridge
[A5] [Asus2] [Bm/F#]
The little girl [A]can stop her [E/G#]world to wait [B]for me.
[C#m][A]Every [E]time I say goodbye, you're frozen in my [B]mind.
Because the child [E]that you never knew me.
[A] [E/G#] [F#7] [C#m] [F#m] [E] [E/G#] [D#] [C#m] [E/B] [E]
You'll never will be there.
You'll never will be.
Section
[A] [E]
Be more [A]to you than [E/G#]a stranger could be.
[D#][A][E]Every time I say goodbye, you're frozen in my mind.
Because the child that you never will [C#m7]be.
[C#m]You'll [A]never [Esus4]will be [E]again.
[F#]Every [B]time [E]I say goodbye, you're frozen in my mind.
Because the child that you never [Emaj7/B]will [C#m]be.
Will be [A]again.
Outro
[E]