When We Were Winning Chords

[Intro]
C G Am F
 
        C                  
oh when we were seventeen, 
     G
our life was like a film
         Dm                    
when we were seventeen the sky 
     F
was always tangerine
        C                        
we ran through streets at night, 
 G
under starlight
        Dm
we ran through streets at night
     F              C G Am F
when we were winning
 
   C                   
oh wild was the world, 
    G
and wild we burned
        Dm                    
we were kings of the streets, 
        F
not yet beaten by defeats
    C                     
but now it's hard to see, 
          G
through a fog of memories
   Dm           
but I remember, 
     F              C G Am F
when we were winning
 
       C                       
now my friends are unemployed, 
     G
not needed in this world
       Dm                    
pushed down by this town and 
 F
always turned down
    C                   
but in dreams at night, 
          G
they can sometimes recall
     Dm              
when we were heroes, 
     F              C G Am F
when we were winning
 
Am           G           F      
what have we done to our lives? 
Am           G       F
we could've been anything
Am                       G    
we gave it our love for what? 
             F C G  (C G Am F 2x)
this is the time
 
        C                   
oh it's in the air at night 
           G
there's a wind coming in
     Dm                 F
the days dying, oh it's so beautiful
                   C
there's something happening somewhere
           G               
I take the bus in to town, 
      Dm
all I see is laughing
    F             C G Am F
and we are winning
 
C            G          Dm   
soon I grow older young boys 
           F
I haven't lived yet
   C                  G     
before tonight's the memory 
         Dm
let's go out
      F
I'm still young
 
C G Am F 2x
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