E/A A
When I was a boy
E/A A
all the books I read
D
I followed like a blind man
to heed the words my father said.
A E A
Those golden summers faded into night,
E A
words become a dream,
D
the echoes of my childhood
E
and where the path is winding.
C
May God bless you,
A# C
keep you safe from all harm.
F
Oh, may I stand by you always.
C
Time and motion.
A#
Hands touch,
C C/A# A# Am/A# Gm/A# F/A# Gm/A#
lips find a way to heaven on high.
A E/A A E/A D/A
E/A A
Watch the children play,
E/A A
the child becomes a man,
D
and all the tangled webs we weave,
you swear it as we live and breath.
A E A
We stay together, death until you part.
E A
Winner takes the prize.
D
The future's at your finger tips,
E
right before your eyes.
C
No more sorrow (smoke and mirrors).
A#
No more nights with no end. (I really learned a lot)
C F
I see my tomorrows (smoke and mirrors)
Dm A7
And nothing from nothing.
Dm
And ashes to ash es, they say.
A# A7
All the more that you reach out
A#
the more that it runs away.
C A#
Smoke and mirrors.
C F
Smoke and mirrors.
C A#
(No more goodbyes) (No lies)
That's all I ever got, smoke and mirrors.
C C/A#
(you find your way there heaven on high)
She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors.
A# Am/A# Gm/A# F/A# Gm/A# F/A# G
C
May God bless you,
A#
keep you safe from all harm.
C A#/C
I stand by you always.
C
Time and motion (smoke and mirrors)
A#
Hands touch,
C C/A# A# Am/A# Gm/A#
(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)
A# C
No more nights with no end.
(She show me what she's got, smoke and mirrors)
C/A# A# Am/A# Gm/A#
I rise or I fall.
C
No more goodbyes.
(She really makes me hot, smoke and mirrors)
A# C
No lies, you find a way there,
C/A#
heaven on high.