Don McLean - Aftermath: chords

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

G                                        D/F#
The film is just a snake design and the photographs
are fading fast
F                                 G
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
 Em7                 A
Gray days from the crispest morning to the
 G        F#     Em7         A
warmest afternoon   in this room

D                                            C
And I like to draw the face I saw so long ago
D                       C                       D
My image in the mirror tells the jagged lines which
way to go
Em7                      A              G
The black and white description of the sole
         F#
survivor of the Holocaust
G
All the rest were lost

Do you see this paper face? It has no color or
no mood
My eyes are ageless, as am I. I need no sleep,
I need no food
I am a king, but like a child the other
children laugh at me
Tongues of fire, wagging wild they dance
around me merrily

I'll kill them all and if I fail
I'll kill whoever I can find
Then they'll beg me to be kind
My eyes have seen far more than eyes can ever tell
This planet plunged through mushroom
fires of earthly hell
I know that my sweet Jesus said that he'd return
But Babylon has fallen and the cities burn