Don McLean – Aftermath (Guitar)

G
 Windows in a silent room , sunlight burns the walls to black

Am
  Angles and dimensions melt while colors drip and pillows crack

Bm
  Reflections of my memories like pictures pasted on a sheet

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  The ribbon film of separate frames lying curled up at my feet

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 The film is just a snake design and the photographs are fading fast

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 These are not memories of mine I have no future, no past

D
 I've seen a thousand afternoons dissolve into the night

D
 Like sugar crystals on a spoon they disappear from sight

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Gray days from the crispest morning to the warmest afternoon   in this room

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 And I like to draw the face I saw so long ago

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 My image in the mirror tells the jagged lines which way to go

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  The black and white description of the sole survivor of the Holocaust

G
 All the rest were lost

G
 Do you see this paper face? It has no color or no mood

Am
  My eyes are ageless, as am I. I need no sleep, I need no food

Bm
  I am a king, but like a child the other children laugh at me

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Tongues of fire, wagging wild they dance around me merrily

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 I'll kill them all and if I fail I'll kill whoever I can find

F
 Then they'll beg me to be kind

D
 My eyes have seen far more than eyes can ever tell

D
 This planet plunged through mushroom fires of earthly hell

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   I know that my sweet Jesus said that he'd return

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But Babylon has fallen and the cities    burn