Timeless

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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  Down the block,
there's an antique shop
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And something in my head said,
"Stop," so I walked in
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  On the counter was a cardboard box
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And the sign said,
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"Photos: twentyfive cents each"
Black and white, saw a thirty's bride
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And school lovers laughin' on the porch of their first
house
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  The kinda love that you only find once in a lifetime
The kind you don't put down

[Pre-Chorus]
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  And that's when I called you and it's so hard to explain
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But in those photos, I saw us instead
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  And, somehow,
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I know that you and I would've found each other
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In another life,
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you still would've turned my  head even if we'd met

[Chorus]
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On a crowded street in nineteenfourtyfour
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  And you were headed off to fight in the war
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  You still would've been mine
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We would have been timeless
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I would've read your love letters every single night
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  And prayed to God you'd be comin' home all right
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And you would've been fine
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We would have been timeless

[Post-Chorus]
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'Cause I believe that we  were supposed to find  this
So, even in a different life,
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  you still would've been mine
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We would've been timeless

[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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  I had to smile when it caught my eye
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There was one of a teenage couple in the driveway
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  Holdin' hands on the way to a dance
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And the date on the back said nineteenfiftyeight
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  Which brought me back to the first time I saw you
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Time stood still like somethin' in this old shop
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  I thought about it as I started lookin' 'round
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At these precious things that time forgot

[Pre-Chorus]
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  That's when I came upon a book covered in cobwebs
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Story of a romance torn apart by fate
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  Hundreds of years ago, they fell  in love,
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like we did
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  And I'd die for you in the same way  if I first saw your
face

[Chorus]
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In the fifteen hundreds off in a foreign land
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  And I was forced to marry another man
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  You still would've been mine
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We would have been timeless
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I would've read your love letters every single night
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  And run away and left it all behind
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  You still would've been mine
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We would've been timeless

[Post-Chorus]
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'Cause I believe that we  were supposed to find  this
So, even in a different life,
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  you still would've been mine
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We would've been timeless

[Interlude]
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[Bridge]
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Time breaks down your mind and body
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Don't you let it touch your soul
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It was like an ageold classic
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The first time that you saw  me
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The story started when  you said,
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"Hello"

[Chorus]
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In a crowded room a few short years ago
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  And sometimes there's no proof,
you just know
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  You're always gonna be mine
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We're gonna be
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I'm gonna love you when our hair is turnin' gray
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We'll have a cardboard box of photos of the life we've
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made  And you'll say, "Oh my,
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we really were timeless"
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We're gonna be timeless, timeless

[Post-Chorus]
Cm                            Bb
  You still would've been mine
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We would've been
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Even if we'd met on a crowded street in nineteenfourtyfour
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  You still would've been mine
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We would've been

[Outro]
Eb
  Down the block,
there's an antique shop
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And somethin' in my head said,
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"Stop," so I walked in