Aftermath [Bonus Track] chords by Don McLean

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Verse 1
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 
A   ribbon film of separate frames
G 
lying curled up at my feet
The film is just a snake design
F# 
and the photographs are fading fast
D 
F 
Dm 
F 
These are not memories of mine,
G 
I have no future and no past
D 
I have seen a thousand afternoons
G 
D 
dissolve into the night
Like sugar crystals on a spoon,
G 
D 
they disappear from sight
E 
Em 
A 
Gray days from the crispest
morning
G 
F# 
to the warmest afternoon
Em 
A 
In  this room
D 
And I like to draw the face
Bm 
D 
I saw so long ago
My image in the mirror
C 
D 
tells the jagged lines which way to go
E 
Em 
A 
A black and white description
G 
F# 
D 
G 
of the sole survivor of the holocaust.
D 
G 
All the rest were lost.
Do you see this paper face?
It has no color or no mood.
Am 
My eyes are ageless as am I.
I need no sleep, I need no food
D 
I am a king, but like a child
Bm 
The other children laugh at me
Am 
Tongues of fire, wagging wild
G 
They dance around me merrily
I'll kill them all,
D 
and if I fail I'll kill whoever I can find
F 
Dm 
F 
And then they'll beg me to be kind
D 
My eyes have seen far more
G 
D 
than eyes can ever tell
This planet plunged through mushroom
Bm 
D 
fires of  earthly hell
E 
Em 
A 
I  know that my sweet Jesus
D 
said that he'd return
F# 
E 
A 
But Babylon has fallen,
G 
D 
and the cities burn