C#/F# F#
When I was a boy
C#/F# F#
all the books I read
B
I followed like a blind man
to heed the words my father said.
F# C# F#
Those golden summers faded into night,
C# F#
words become a dream,
B
the echoes of my childhood
C#
and where the path is winding.
A
May God bless you,
G A
keep you safe from all harm.
D
Oh, may I stand by you always.
A
Time and motion.
G
Hands touch,
A A/G G F#m/G Em/G D/G Em/G
lips find a way to heaven on high.
F# C#/F# F# C#/F# B/F#
C#/F# F#
Watch the children play,
C#/F# F#
the child becomes a man,
B
and all the tangled webs we weave,
you swear it as we live and breath.
F# C# F#
We stay together, death until you part.
C# F#
Winner takes the prize.
B
The future's at your finger tips,
C#
right before your eyes.
A
No more sorrow (smoke and mirrors).
G
No more nights with no end. (I really learned a lot)
A D
I see my tomorrows (smoke and mirrors)
Bm F#7
And nothing from nothing.
Bm
And ashes to ash es, they say.
G F#7
All the more that you reach out
G
the more that it runs away.
A G
Smoke and mirrors.
A D
Smoke and mirrors.
A G
(No more goodbyes) (No lies)
That's all I ever got, smoke and mirrors.
A A/G
(you find your way there heaven on high)
She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors.
G F#m/G Em/G D/G Em/G D/G E
A
May God bless you,
G
keep you safe from all harm.
A G/A
I stand by you always.
A
Time and motion (smoke and mirrors)
G
Hands touch,
A A/G G F#m/G Em/G
(that's all I ever got) (smoke and mirrors)
lips find a way to heaven on high .
A
No more sorrows
(I really learned a lot, smoke and mirrors)
G A
No more nights with no end.
(She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors)
A/G G F#m/G Em/G
I rise or I fall.
A
No more goodbyes.
(She really makes me hot, smoke and mirrors)
G A
No lies, you find a way there,
A/G
heaven on high.