This is the time(Chords)

	        Bb                  C        Bbmaj7    Bb            C         Bb   Bbmaj7 
{piano intro} 
 
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Dm7                 Cm/Eb              F 
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        We walked on the beach beside that old hotel. 
 
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        They're tearing it down now, but it's just as well. 
 
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        I haven't shown you everything a man can do 
 
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        so stay with me, baby, I've got plans for you.           This is the 
 
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    time       to remember    cuz it will not last forever.      These are 
the 
 
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   days        to hold on to   cuz we won't altho' we'll want to.  This is 
the 
 
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 time,                     but time is gonna change.         You've given me 
 
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 the best of you           and now I need the rest of you. 
 
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       Did you know that before you came into my life 
 
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          it was some kind of miracle that I survived. 
 
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         Someday we will both look back & have to laugh. 
 
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        We lived thru a lifetime & the aftermath.                This is the 
 
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 time        to remember       cuz it will not las forever.    These are the 
 
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   days      to hold on to     cuz we won't altho' we'll want to.  This is 
the 
 
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 time             but time is gonna change.                 I know we've got 
 
Ebm7                Ebm7               Bb        F                       G 
 to move somehow           but I don't want to lose you now. 
 
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        Sometimes it's so easy to let a day         slip on by 
 
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          without even seeing each other at all. 
 
Dm                  Am7                Bb                 Em7       A7 
         But this is the time you'll turn back & so will I 
 
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      and those will be the days you can never recall. 
 
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{piano} 
 
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      And so we embrace again behind the dunes. 
 
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         This beach is cold on winter afternoons. 
 
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        But holding you close is like holding the summer sun. 
 
Dm7                 Cm/Eb              F                  F    F 
         I'm warm from the memory of days to come.            This is the 
 
F/A                 Bb                 Eb            Gm7  F 
 time       to remember cuz it will not last forever.       These are the 
 
F/A                 Bb                 Eb            Gm7  F 
 days       to hold on to      but we won't altho' we'll want to.  This is 
the 
 
Bb                  Fm/Ab              Gm7                G7/F 
 time               but time is gonna change.             You'be given me 
the 
 
Ebm7                Ebm7               Bb        F                       G 
 best of you,           but now I need the rest of you. 
 
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 {outro} 
 
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Written by Billy Joel