Castles In The Air

| G ^ | Gsus4 ^ | G ^ | Gsus4 ^ | 0:07 G ^ Gsus4 ^ I've seen you face in magazines C D7 G ^ Gsus4 ^ Yeah I've read all of those press room queens descriptions G ^ I can't believe the lies they tell C D7 G ^ Gsus4 ^ But truth is not the way to sell subscriptions C D7 G ^ Gsus4 ^ After all the smoke had cleared away C D7 G Em Did not take me long to find out what you had to say C This is just a game Am And I'm glad I finally learned to play D7 By the rules C D7 Do they really think we're fools 0:54 G ^ Gsus4 ^ They put you down behind my back C D7 G ^ Gsus4 ^ Distorting all the honest facts about you G ^ Gsus4 ^ While searching through your lyric sheets C D7 G ^ Gsus4 ^ For secret meanings too discreet to doubt you C D7 G ^ Gsus4 ^ Isn't it a shame they never heard C D7 G ^ Em ^ They finally wrote you off as really being too absurd C While all the time you sacrificed your rhymes D7 To find a word they could not see C G D/A Hidden in your melodies 1:41 D/A C D/A G Like a tree that could bend with the wind C D/A G Like a river that flows around the bend C Like a dream D Like a song G C They all cross right or wrong G D G* G7* C They just keep on building castles in the sand G* G7* C G* G7* C G* G7* C 2:16 G ^ Gsus4 ^ Then just like you they told me lies C* D* G ^ Gsus4 ^ And offered corporate alibis to change me G ^ Gsus4 ^ My songs were taken through the mill C D7* G ^ Gsus4 ^ While managers were hired to rearrange me C D7* G ^ Gsus4 ^ They led me to the slaughter like a lamb C D7 G ^ Em I just kept pretending that I did not give a damn C Am Am Now this situations gotten too far out of hand D7/A To be real C D7 I don't wanna make a deal G ^ Gsus4 ^ The Parasites reach for your heart C* D7 G ^ Gsus4 ^ Each one must try do their part to drain you G ^ Gsus4 ^ You give them your best autograph C D7 G ^ Gsus4 ^ On pictures knowing well they're gonna frame you C D7 G ^ Gsus4 ^ Don't you know it happens every time C D7/A G Em Little did they know I could read between the line C You told them times were changing Am But they did not heed the signs D/A I'm not that green C/G C D/A Bobby do you know what I mean [ 49] D/A C D G I'm Like a tree that can bend with the wind C D G I'm like a river that flows around the bend C I'm like a dream D7 Like a song G C That I've crossed right or wrong G D G* G7* C And I'll just keep on building castles in the sand G* G7* C G* G7* C G* G7* C* 4:25 G ^ Gsus4 ^ They drove me in their limousines C D7/A* G ^ Gsus4 ^ My pockets bursting at the seems with money G ^ Gsus4 ^ They said I could take your place C* D7* G ^ Gsus4 ^ By putting makeup on my face like honey C D7/A* G ^ Gsus4 ^ Now don't you know it chilled me to the bone C D7/A G ^ Em They even had the nerve to ask me if I could re-write like a rolling stone C C/G C D7/A That's when I told they the should leave my ass alone D7 Its plan to see C/G G D/A I just wanted to be free C/G D/A G Like a tree that can bend with the wind C D G Like a river that flows around the bend C Like a dream D/A Like a song G C That I cross right or wrong G D7/A G* G7* C And I'll just keep on building castles in the sand G* G7* C G* G7* C G* G7* C* D And every song I write my friend C D G* ^ I play it with my band