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