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Artist: Jim Lea
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The Valley of the Kings
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The Valley of the Kings
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We were lost, out of time
In a world that really was sublime
Who can say what it is
That makes people carry on like this?
Time has gone, passed us by
There’s no time for sitting wonder why
Seize the hour, seize the day
Seize the season and the air
And I say
Woah-oh-ho, you’ll see
What we made of, not afraid of
Woah-oh-ho, you’ll see
How we could be what we should be
Woah, the greatest thing
When we’re in the valley of the kings
We were lost, we were blind
Was it really very hard to find
Something new that would do
All the things we ever wanted to?
We were young, very young
Being young is when the doing is done
That was then, this is now
And we’ve gotta seize the season
I say
Woah-oh-ho, you’ll see
What we made of, not afraid of
Woah-oh-ho, you’ll see
How we could be what we should be
Woah, the greatest thing
When we’re in the valley of the kings
And you will see, yeah
Guitar
You will see, yeah
We were young, very young
Being young is when the doing is done
That was then, this is now
And I wanna seize the season
I say
Woah-oh-ho, you’ll see
What we made of, not afraid of
Woah-oh-ho, you’ll see
How we could be what we should be
Woah, the greatest thing
If we’re in the valley of the kings
Woah-oh-ho, you’ll see
What we made of
And you will see (we’ll dance, we’ll sing)
Yeah (when we), yeah, and you will sing, (are kings)
You will sing (we’ll dance, we’ll sing), yeah
When we’re in the valley of the kings
Yeah, we’ll dance and sing (we’ll sing)
When we are kings (when we)
In the valley of the kings
We’ll dance and sing (we’ll sing), when we are kings, (when we)
In the valley of the kings
(Yeah, we’ll dance) and da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
(When we’re) In the valley of the kings
We’d dance, we’d sing when we were kings
Woah-oh-ho, you’ll see
How we could be what we should be
Woah, the greatest thing
If we’re in the valley of the kings
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