A/D D
When I was a boy
A/D D
all the books I read
G
I followed like a blind man
to heed the words my father said.
D A D
Those golden summers faded into night,
A D
words become a dream,
G
the echoes of my childhood
A
and where the path is winding.
F
May God bless you,
D# F
keep you safe from all harm.
A#
Oh, may I stand by you always.
F
Time and motion.
D#
Hands touch,
F F/D# D# Dm/D# Cm/D# A#/D# Cm/D#
lips find a way to heaven on high.
D A/D D A/D G/D
A/D D
Watch the children play,
A/D D
the child becomes a man,
G
and all the tangled webs we weave,
you swear it as we live and breath.
D A D
We stay together, death until you part.
A D
Winner takes the prize.
G
The future's at your finger tips,
A
right before your eyes.
F
No more sorrow (smoke and mirrors).
D#
No more nights with no end. (I really learned a lot)
F A#
I see my tomorrows (smoke and mirrors)
Gm D7
And nothing from nothing.
Gm
And ashes to ash es, they say.
D# D7
All the more that you reach out
D#
the more that it runs away.
F D#
Smoke and mirrors.
F A#
Smoke and mirrors.
F D#
(No more goodbyes) (No lies)
That's all I ever got, smoke and mirrors.
F F/D#
(you find your way there heaven on high)
She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors.
D# Dm/D# Cm/D# A#/D# Cm/D# A#/D# C
F
May God bless you,
D#
keep you safe from all harm.
F D#/F
I stand by you always.
F
Time and motion (smoke and mirrors)
D#
Hands touch,
F F/D# D# Dm/D# Cm/D#
(that's all I ever got) (smoke and mirrors)
lips find a way to heaven on high .
F
No more sorrows
(I really learned a lot, smoke and mirrors)
D# F
No more nights with no end.
(She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors)
F/D# D# Dm/D# Cm/D#
I rise or I fall.
F
No more goodbyes.
(She really makes me hot, smoke and mirrors)
D# F
No lies, you find a way there,
F/D#
heaven on high.