C/F F
When I was a boy
C/F F
all the books I read
A#
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,
A#
the echoes of my childhood
C
and where the path is winding.
G#
May God bless you,
F# G#
keep you safe from all harm.
C#
Oh, may I stand by you always.
G#
Time and motion.
F#
Hands touch,
G# G#/F# F# Fm/F# D#m/F# C#/F# D#m/F#
lips find a way to heaven on high.
F C/F F C/F A#/F
C/F F
Watch the children play,
C/F F
the child becomes a man,
A#
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.
A#
The future's at your finger tips,
C
right before your eyes.
G#
No more sorrow (smoke and mirrors).
F#
No more nights with no end. (I really learned a lot)
G# C#
I see my tomorrows (smoke and mirrors)
A#m F7
And nothing from nothing.
A#m
And ashes to ash es, they say.
F# F7
All the more that you reach out
F#
the more that it runs away.
G# F#
Smoke and mirrors.
G# C#
Smoke and mirrors.
G# F#
(No more goodbyes) (No lies)
That's all I ever got, smoke and mirrors.
G# G#/F#
(you find your way there heaven on high)
She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors.
F# Fm/F# D#m/F# C#/F# D#m/F# C#/F# D#
G#
May God bless you,
F#
keep you safe from all harm.
G# F#/G#
I stand by you always.
G#
Time and motion (smoke and mirrors)
F#
Hands touch,
G# G#/F# F# Fm/F# D#m/F#
(that's all I ever got) (smoke and mirrors)
lips find a way to heaven on high .
G#
No more sorrows
(I really learned a lot, smoke and mirrors)
F# G#
No more nights with no end.
(She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors)
G#/F# F# Fm/F# D#m/F#
I rise or I fall.
G#
No more goodbyes.
(She really makes me hot, smoke and mirrors)
F# G#
No lies, you find a way there,
G#/F#
heaven on high.