Billy Joel - This Is the Time: chords

Dm7              D#                F
We walked on the beach beside that old hotel
Dm7                 D#                  F
They're tearing it down now, but it's just as well
Dm7                 D#            F
I haven't shown you everything a man can do
Dm7             D#               F
So stay with me baby, I've got plans for you

Chorus:
            F/A       A#
This is the time to remember
         D#               F
Cause it will not last forever
              F/A          A#
These are the days to hold on to
          D#                    F
Cause we won't, although we'll want to
            A#
This is the time
G#6                G7sus4 G7
But time is gonna change

                    F#+    F#6  F#+ F#6
You've given me the best of you
                    A#/F   F
And now I need the rest of you

Did you know that before you came into my life
It was some kind of miracle that I survived
Some day we will both look back
And have to laugh
We lived through a lifetime
And the aftermath

Chorus

I know we've got to move somehow
But I don't want to lose you now

Dm7               Am7
Sometimes it's so easy
         A#           C C#dim7
To let a day slip on by
Dm7           Am7                 A#  A# C
Without even seeing each other at all
Dm7              Am7
But this is the time you'll turn back
    Gm7    Em7-5 A7
And so will I
Dm7                Am7                 A#
And those will be days you can never recall

And so we embrace again
Behind the dunes
This beach is so cold on winter afternoons
But holding you close is like holding the summer sun
I'm warm from the memory of days to come

Chorus

You've given me the best of you
But now I need the rest of you