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