Key: D
Introduction:
D
Intro
(pno.)
F#m
It was a slow day
F#m6
And the sun was beating
F#m E
On the soldiers by the side of the road
F#m
There was a bright light
F#m6
A shattering of shop windows
F#m E
The bomb in the baby carriage
D2
Was wired to the radio, and
E D2
These are the days of miracle and wonder
E D2
This is the long-distance call
E D2
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
E B
The way we look to us all
C#m B4
The way we look to a distant constellation
E/G# D2
That's dying in a corner of the sky
F#m E5 D5
These are the days of miracle and wonder
E5 D2
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry
Instrumental (cello, pno.)
F#m
It was a dry wind
E
And it swept across the desert
D6 C#m
And it curled into the circle of birth
F#m
And the dead sand
E
Falling on the children
D6
The mothers and the fathers
B
And the automatic earth
C#m9 B5
These are the days of miracle and wonder
A6 B
This is the long-distance call
C#m E E/G# B
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
C#m B A5
The way we look to us all
E/G# D2
The way we look to a distant constellation
C#m B D2
That's dying in a corner of the sky
E B
These are the days of miracle and wonder
A B D
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry
Instrumental
F#m
Well it's a turn-around jump shot
E A
It's everybody jump start
Bm C#m
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
F#m E2
Medicine is magical and magical is art
D2
Think of the boy in the bubble
B
And the baby with the baboon heart
Verse
E D2
These are days of lasers in the jungle
A/C# D5
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
E Bm7/D
Staccato signals of constant information
A/C# B
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires, and, baby
E E/G# B
These are the days of miracle and wonder
A5 B
This is the long-distance call
C#m E E/G# B
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
C#m B A5
The way we look to us all, oh, yeah
B A
The way we look to a distant constellation
E/G# A B
That's dying in a corner of the sky
G#m F#
These are the days of miracle and wonder
C#m B
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry
Instrumental -- OUTRO