Misc Musicals – Closer Than Ever - If I Sing (Guitar)

F#m
My father's pride

C#m
Was in his hands.

D                   C#
The piano was his soul.

F#m
I watched and wondered

C#m
As he played show tunes

D                         C#
Miles off from rock and roll.

D                 C#m
What he loved he taught me.

Cm                  B
Now music's what I do.

D                     E
And often when I'm writing,

        D                  C
In my hands, Dad's there too.

   D                   A
If I sing you are the music.

      Bm                Am
If I fly you're why I'm good.

        Em                   D
If my hands can find some magic

            B                 Bm
You're the one who said they could.

D        F#            Bm
If the child that's still inside me

        F#   C#        C#m
Finds a song in empty air.

Eb            D             Bm
When there is joy in making music

A     Dm   F#m D  E   F#m
It is you who put it there.

F#m
My dad grew old.

C#m
His hands were numb.

D                  C#
And now he cannot play.

F#m
I came to visit.

C#m
He sat and asked me

D                    C#
"How can it be this way?"

D                   C#m
I couldn't find an answer.

Cm                          B
I played this tune for him instead.

D                      E
My father sat there smiling

         D            C
For he knew what it said.

      D               A
If I sing you are the music.

      Bm   D             A
If I love you taught me how.

       Em                D
Every day your heart is beating

        B             Bm     A
In the man that I am now.

       F#                 Bm
If my ears are tuned to wander.

           F#    C#              C#m
If when I reach the chords are there.

 Eb            D            Bm
When there is joy in making music,

A       Dm  F#m D   E     Fm
It's a joy that we both share.

          A#
I never told you.

          Cm               Gm
It took time till I could see

           Eb                Cm       
That if I sing you are the music

Bb          Eb  C   Eb  B  G
And you'll always sing in me.

            Ebm    F       Bb
Yes you'll always live in me.