G            D
How can you stand the silence
C                  G
That pervades when we all cry?
G            D
How can you watch the violence
C              G
That erupts before your eyes?
G            D
How can you tell us something
C                G
Just to keep us hanging on?
G                    D
Something that just don't mean nothing
C                   G
When we see it you are gone
C                  G
Clinging to some other rainbow
C                            G
While we're standing waiting in the cold
C               G
Telling us the same old story
Em                 D
Knowing time is growing old

[Chorus]
 D           C         G
That was a wonderful remark
D         C                   G
I had my eyCes closed in the dark
C
I sighed a million sighs
G                           D        C   G
I told a million lies...to myself....to myself

[Instrumental]
D C G G
D C G G

[Verse 2]
G            D
How can we listen to you
 C                 G
When we know your talk is cheap?
G           D
How can we ever question
C                 G
Why we give more and you keep?
G                   D
How can your empty laughter
 C                 G
Fill a room like ours with joy
G                  D
When you're only playing with us
C                  G
Like a child does with a toy?
C                G
How can we ever feel the freedom
C                G
Or the flame lit by the spark?
C           G
How can we come out even
Em            D
When reality is stark?

D           C           G
That was a wonderful remark
D         C                  G
I had my eyes closed in the dark
C
I sighed a million sighs
G                           D         C   G
I told a million lies....to myself....to myself

[Outro]
(Repeat till fade)
D C G G
D C G G