Key: D
Introduction:
D G A D
Scared of losin' all the time
G A D
He wrote it on a letter
G A D G A
He was a friend of mine
D G A D
He heard you could see your future
G A D
Inside a glass of water
G A D G A
With ripples and the lines
G A
He asked 'Will I see heaven in mine
D G A)
D G A D
Oh that is just the way it was,
G A D
and nothing could be better,
G A D G A
and nothing ever was.
D G A D
Oh he said you could see your future,
G A D
inside a glass of water,
G A D G A
With riddles and the rhymes
G A
'Will I see heaven in mine
A
Oh, oh, oh
D F#m Bm G D F#m Bm G
Son don't ask,
D F#m Bm G D F#m Bm G
Neither how full or empty is your glass,
D F#m Bm G D F#m Bm G
Cling to the mast
D F#m Bm A G A G
Spend your whole life living in your past
A
Going nowhere fast
D G A)
D G A D
So he wrote it on a wall
G A D G A D G A
that the hollowest of halos is no halo at all
D G A D G A D
And television selling plastic figurines of leaders
G A D GA
saying nothing at all
G
And we chime 'Stars in heaven, align!'
A
Oh, oh, oh
D F#m Bm G D F#m Bm G
Son don't ask,
D F#m Bm G D F#m Bm G
Neither how full or empty is your glass,
D F#m Bm G D F#m Bm G
Cling to the mast
D F#m Bm A G A G
Spend your whole life living in your past
A
Going nowhere fast
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D F#m Bm G)
D A G D)
D A
And what I'll be drinking when we're done?
G D
Just glasses of water