G F Am G
F - Am
1. I fear that I'm ordinary, just like everyone,
G F Am G
F - Am
to
lie here and die among the sorrows, adrift among the days.
C
For everything I ever said,
Am D G
and
everything I've ever done is gone and dead.
F Am G
As all things must surely have to end,
F Am G
and great lovers will one day
have to part.
F Am
C
I know that I am meant for this world.
G F Am
G F - Am
2. My life has been extraordinary, blessed and cursed and won,
G F
Am G F
time
heals, but I'm forever broken, by and by the way.
Am C Am G
Have you ever heard the words
I'm singing in these songs ?
C Am
G C Am D
It's for the girl I've loved
all along. Can a taste of love be so wrong ?
F Am G
As all things must surely have to end,
F Am G
and great lovers will one day
have to part.
F Am C - Am
I know that I am meant for this world.
G F
Am
+ And in my mind as I
was floating far above the clouds,
C
some
children laughed, I'd fall for certain
F C G
for
thinking that I'd last forever.
F
Am
G
3. But I knew exactly where I was,
F Am
G
and I
knew the meaning of it all.
F Am
G
And I knew the distance to the
sun,
F
Am G
and I
knew the echo that is love.
F
Am G
And I knew the secrets in your
spires,
F Am G
and I
knew the emptiness of youth.
F Am G
And I knew the solitude of heart,
F Am
G
and I
knew the murmurs of the soul.
C
Am
G
4. And the world is drawn into your hands,
C Am G
and
the world is etched upon your heart.
C
Am G
And the world so hard to
understand,
C
Am
G - F
- Am - G
is
the world you can't live without.............t.
F Am
G
And I knew the silence of the world !
F Am G
And I knew the silence of the world !
F Am G
And I knew the silence of the world !
F Am
D
And I knew the silence of the world !
F Am G
And I knew the silence of the world !
(orig. = capo 1st) (The Smashing
Pumpkins)