Intro: C Am C F C G C
verse 1:
C
14A, window seat, tennis shoes and faded jeans.
C F C
Nervous as he tells me it's his first time on a plane.
C F C
We took off and headed East, I was thumbing through the magazines.
C F C G
He felt like talking and offered me his name.
G F C G
SO I asked him how he was
G F C Dm
And he smiled and said, Well son,
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I've chased after pretty girls
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
It seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
verse 2:
C G C
I've been out a month or so, another night, another show
C F C G
One hundred different cities, they all just seem the same
C F C
He asked me what it must be like, singing songs under the lights
C F C G
Well, it's got its moments, just the same as anything
G C
I miss my town, I miss my wife
F C Dm
But I'm up here with you tonight
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I have loved a pretty girl
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
IT seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
Good to me
Bridge:
F Am F C
Sometimes we can get lost living in the here and now
F C Am Bb G F
Sometimes it takes the sky to see what's the ground
C Am C F C G C
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I've chased after pretty girls
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
IT seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
Outro