Time Of Your Life | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| G5 N.C | G5 N.C |
F*ck.
||: G5 | Cadd9 D5 :||
Verse 1
| G5 | Cadd9 D5 |
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
| G5 | Cadd9 D5 |
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
Bridge 1
| Em D5 | C G5 |
So make the best of this test, and don’t ask why.
| Em D5 | C G5 |
It’s not a question, but a lesson learned in time.
Chorus 1
| Em G5 | Em G5 |
It’s something unpredictable, but in the end, it’s right.
| Em D5 |
I hope you had the time of your life.
Instrumental 1
||: G5 | Cadd9 D5 :||
Verse 2
| G5 | Cadd9 D5 |
So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind.
| G5 | Cadd9 D5 |
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time.
Bridge 2
| Em D5 | C G5 |
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial,
| Em D5 | C G5 |
for what it’s worth it was worth all the while.
Chorus 2
| Em G5 | Em G5 |
It’s something unpredictable, but in the end, it’s right.
| Em D5 |
I hope you had the time of your life.
Solo
||: G5 | Cadd9 D5 :|| x4
||: Em D5 | C G5 :||
Chorus 3
| Em G5 | Em G5 |
It’s something unpredictable, but in the end, it’s right.
| Em D5 |
I hope you had the time of your life.
Instrumental 2
||: G5 | Cadd9 D5 :||
Chorus 4
| Em G5 | Em G5 |
It’s something unpredictable, but in the end, it’s right.
| Em D5 |
I hope you had the time of your life.
End
||: G5 | Cadd9 D5 :|| G |
Time Of Your Life’s chords and progressions
Apart from the fast picking and strumming of the original guitar, if you take the course, you’ll discover how the most challenging part of learning how to play Time Of Your Life is to play the violin solo, note-for-note!
In the course, we do all this but also change the key, apply a capo, and create a 2nd guitar part.
Once you’ve learned the 2nd guitar part, you, me, and the singer can play this song together as if we are a band. Although we will sound a bit country!
This is perhaps the most interesting part of learning this Green Day tune, if you start including the 3rd in the chords, it does sound like a country tune.
The solution to this is to be found in the original part which uses the open-position chords G5 and D5, just like punk power chords are usually played using E and A barre chord shapes.
Creating 2nd guitar parts is a great step in the direction of playing with other musicians but also to learn more about the song in question and playing guitar in general.
Here’s a link to the complete lesson series (members only): Time Of Your Life 8 step-by-step guitar lessons with TAB.
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Time Of Your Life is not called Time Of Your Life!
Time Of Your Life was originally named Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) but has also been called Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance) as well as just Good Riddance!
Initially, Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song for the breakthrough album Dookie (1994), but it was held back three years for the follow-up album Nimrod which was released in 1997.
As a single from Nimrod, Time Of Your Life did very well and was the only crossover single with worldwide success from the album.
Some might even say Time Of Your Life kept Green Day in the limelight between Dookie and American Idiot.
According to bassist Mike Dirnt, Time Of Your Life was, in comparison to the rest of the material on Nimrod, “The most punk we could go”.
Time Of Your Life chords | Related pages
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Green Day
Green Day’s third album, Dookie (94), took the band to superstardom. With fifteen million copies sold, they became everyone’s favorite punk trio.
After a few more albums, Green Day released American Idiot (04). This firmly established them as one of the best-known bands in the world.
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