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.
D#
May God bless you,
C# D#
keep you safe from all harm.
G#
Oh, may I stand by you always.
D#
Time and motion.
C#
Hands touch,
D# D#/C# C# Cm/C# A#m/C# G#/C# A#m/C#
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.
D#
No more sorrow (smoke and mirrors).
C#
No more nights with no end. (I really learned a lot)
D# G#
I see my tomorrows (smoke and mirrors)
Fm C7
And nothing from nothing.
Fm
And ashes to ash es, they say.
C# C7
All the more that you reach out
C#
the more that it runs away.
D# C#
Smoke and mirrors.
D# G#
Smoke and mirrors.
D# C#
(No more goodbyes) (No lies)
That's all I ever got, smoke and mirrors.
D# D#/C#
(you find your way there heaven on high)
She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors.
C# Cm/C# A#m/C# G#/C# A#m/C# G#/C# A#
D#
May God bless you,
C#
keep you safe from all harm.
D# C#/D#
I stand by you always.
D#
Time and motion (smoke and mirrors)
C#
Hands touch,
D# D#/C# C# Cm/C# A#m/C#
(that's all I ever got) (smoke and mirrors)
lips find a way to heaven on high .
D#
No more sorrows
(I really learned a lot, smoke and mirrors)
C# D#
No more nights with no end.
(She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors)
D#/C# C# Cm/C# A#m/C#
I rise or I fall.
D#
No more goodbyes.
(She really makes me hot, smoke and mirrors)
C# D#
No lies, you find a way there,
D#/C#
heaven on high.