F#/B B
When I was a boy
F#/B B
all the books I read
E
I followed like a blind man
to heed the words my father said.
B F# B
Those golden summers faded into night,
F# B
words become a dream,
E
the echoes of my childhood
F#
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 Bm/C Am/C G/C Am/C
lips find a way to heaven on high.
B F#/B B F#/B E/B
F#/B B
Watch the children play,
F#/B B
the child becomes a man,
E
and all the tangled webs we weave,
you swear it as we live and breath.
B F# B
We stay together, death until you part.
F# B
Winner takes the prize.
E
The future's at your finger tips,
F#
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)
Em B7
And nothing from nothing.
Em
And ashes to ash es, they say.
C B7
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 Bm/C Am/C G/C Am/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 Bm/C Am/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 Bm/C Am/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.