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