Age Of Innocence chords by Iron Maiden

Key: Em

🤘 Intro:

Em C C#m C (x3)



🤘 Verse 1:
Em     C      C#m          C
I can't be compromising in my thoughts no more
Em     C         C#m      C
I can't prevent the times my anger fills my heart
Em     C      C#m       C
I can't be sympathising with a new lost cause
Em     C        C#m         C
I feel I've lost my patience with the world and all

Em
And all the politicians and their hollow promises
               C           Bm
And all the lies, deceit and shame that goes with it
Em
The working man pays everything for their mistakes
                C       Bm D
And with his life too if there was to be a war


🤘 Chorus:
D/F# G   D  A    D/F# G
   So we only get one chance
    D  A D/F# G
Can we take it?
    D  A    D/F# G
And we only get one life
    D   A D/F# G
Can't exchange it
    D  A       D/F# G
Can we hold on to what we have?
    D   A D/F# G
Don't replace it
  D   A      G       D/F#
The age of innocence is fading like an old dream


🤘 Verse 2:
Em
A life of petty crime gets punished with a holiday
                  C         Bm
The victims' minds are scarred for life most everyday
Em
Assailants know just how much further they can go
                C        Bm D
They know the laws are soft, conviction chances low


🤘 Chorus:
D/F# G   D  A    D/F# G
   So we only get one chance
    D  A D/F# G
Can we take it?
    D  A    D/F# G
And we only get one life
    D   A D/F# G
Can't exchange it
    D  A       D/F# G
Can we hold on to what we have?
    D   A D/F# G
Don't replace it
  D   A      G       D/F#
The age of innocence is fading like an old dream


🤘 Solo:
Em C C#min (x4)

Harmonies:
Em C D (x4)


🤘 Bridge:
F#m
You can't protect yourselves, even in your own home
F#m
For fear of vigilante cries the victims wipe their eyes
Em
So now the criminals, they laugh right in our face
F#m
Judicial system lets them do it, a disgrace


🤘 Verse 3:
A     G       D/F#         D G
Despondent public worries where it all will end
A      G          D/F#        G  D/F# G
We can't protect ourselves, our kids from the crime trend
Em
We cannot warn each other of evil in our midst
                  C          Bm D
They have more rights than us, you cannot call that just


🤘 Chorus:
D/F# G   D  A    D/F# G
   So we only get one chance
    D  A D/F# G
Can we take it?
    D  A    D/F# G
And we only get one life
    D   A D/F# G
Can't exchange it
    D  A       D/F# G
Can we hold on to what we have?
    D   A D/F# G
Don't replace it
  D   A      G       D/F#   Em
The age of innocence is fading like an old dream


🤘 Outro:
Em C C#m C (x2)

Em     C      C#m      C    Em9
The age of innocence is fading like an old dream