Thirty-Five Years

Thirty-Five Years
(Takin’ Back My Life)
Copyright, 2010: Keith Birmingham

Em, A=verses
F, Em=chorus

1.)
Em
For thirty-five years I’ve been breakin’ my back

A
In the heat of a July sun.

Em
For thirty-five years I’ve  busted my butt

A
On those cold December runs.

F
For thirty-five years I gave the man

Em
The best years of my life.

F
And now I think it’s time for me

Em
To be takin’ back my life

F.
And now I think it’s time for me

Em
To be takin’ back my life.

2.)

For thirty-five years I gave the woman

Everything I could

For thirty-five years I have done exactly

What I said I would.

But now she’s gone. I’m on my own.

And, Lord I love this life.

“Cause now I think it’s time for me

To be takin’ back my life
.
Now I think it’s time for me

To be takin’ back my live.

3.)

Thirty-five years of sorrow and pain

And now I’ve been set free.

To talk the talk, and walk the walk,

Of the man I want to be.

So look out world I’m steppin’ out

In the prime of my life.

And now I know it’s time for me

To be takin’ back my life.

And now I know it’s time for me

To be takin’ back my  life.

I said now I know it’s time for me

To be takin’ back my life.

And, I’m takin’ back my life.