Making Up For Lost Time Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays505

Making Up For Lost Time by Gary Morris is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, F, G, Em and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: C  Am  F  G  C 

Verse 
C                         F                      C 
I see you standing in the light by the window of my bedroom 
Em                      F 
That old moon has never shined as bright 
        C              G 
As it's shining now on you 
                    
C                       F 
I see a new star in the heavens for us tonight 
Am                        G 
I've been waitin' for you most of my life  
C                               F 
Now that we're together and the way we belong 
  G 
I can't help but wonder why  why did it take so long 

C            G    C            G    C               G   F 
Sometimes it takes much time to find the right one to say 
F            C         F             C      F 
I wanna make you mine  I wanna make you mine 
F                 C     F 
Be with you all the time 
F                    G 
And be the only light in your eyes that ever shines 
C            G     C           G      C             G 
Sometimes it takes many roads to reach the right one to say 
F                  C    F                 C 
Here's where I wanna be  oh what you mean to me 
F             C          F                        G 
When we're making love  I'll spend the rest of my life 
                 C              F 
With you making up for lost time 
Dm                           G        C        F G 
Making up (echo-lady: making up) for lost time       
C                   F                         C 
I turn around and get lost in the look that you give to me 
Em                  F                    C                  G 
I drift away when I hear you say  you've only lived to find me                    
C                    F 
darlin' let me hold you in my arms darlin' oh so tight 
Am                     G 
I been waitin' for you most of my life 
C                               F 
Now that we're together and the way we belong 
  G 
I can't help but wonder why  why did it take so long 

F             G     C 
we never spent together lost time 
F                G            C 
better late than never lost time 
     F                       Dm                G         C 
you know we'll be everywhere making up  making up for lost time 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante