Once Upon Another Time

[A]Once upon another time   [F#m]
I witnessed a butterfly
Drying off his tinted wings
And heave himself into the sky
He said, “Today is my big goodbye.
You see I’m leavin’ my old-time cacoon behind.”
You know that what goes up falls down
And sooner or later we all come around
Like a boomerang
that never hits the ground
We go around and around and come back with what we found

[A]Change is coming,[C#m] it’s on my mind       [D]                       [A]
[A]Change is coming,[C#m] you can’t rewind      [D]                      [E]
[D]Time has a rhythm; history rhymes[E]
Change is coming[D], don’t get left behind [E](resolve to root[A])

Recognize, we metamorphisize
And see the same world from very different eyes
From the tadpole swimming to the green frog hop hopping
Everythings’ changing and it’s all non-stoppin’
From the chick to the chicken, from the ocean to the kitchen
Be the fish or go fishin’, livin’ life like a mission
Subtracting by addition.  Multiply and divide
And remember: nothing’s constant but the ocean’s tide (I’m talkin’)

[A]Change is coming, [C#m]it’s on my mind    [D]                 [A]
Change is coming, you can’t rewind
[D]Time has a rhythm; history rhymes[E]
Change is comin[D]g, don’t get left behin[E]d           [A]