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