The Wedding Song

C G F F C G F G G C G F G The echo of a moment fades away C G F You're beautiful and glowing like a young bride on her wedding day C G As she walks down the aisle through Am F A veil of precious memories C G F G The hands of time are catching up to me C G F G So take it slow, how quickly we forget C G I long for long lost summers filled with F Friends and front porch cigarettes C G Let's sail away on paper ships Am F Through skies of dandelion wind C G F G Forever never coming back again C G F G Where shadows of the evening come alive C G There's seven summer maidens waiting F Holding holy lantern lights C G They whisper what your future holds Am F And paint your past with rings of smokes C G F G Your fortune never comes without a price C G F G My melancholy queen of make believe C G F She rides a rising emerald wake, her water colors serenade C G The moonlight on the borderline Am F The sunset in the ghost town eyes C G F G My scarlet fever wrapped in velveteen C G F G She wanders where the dismal people go C G F Mysterious and haunting like a silent movie picture show C G I kissed her once upon a dream Am F Her red lips on the silver screen C G F G A fallen star that burned out long ago C G F G The old man at the highway ribbon's end C G F They say he spent a lifetime chasing rainbows waiting round the bend C G He hitchhiked on a lightning bolt Am F To ride off where the thunder rolls C G F G His tombstone etched with "catch me if you can" C G F G I've heard the broken bird who learned to fly C G F She's singing at your window when the chariots of dawn arrive C G The ballerina pirouettes Am F Upon an empty hourglass C F F G One last dance before we say goodbye C G F G The prophet child walks between the rain C G F The sentimental bashful poets drowning in the alleyway C G The curtains of his mind unfold Am F And spins his sorrow into gold C G F G And hides behind uncertain shades of gray C G F G He takes the roulette wheel to nowhere bound C G F She strikes another match and trades a last glance with her one horse town C G A tattered romance on the road Am F With empty pockets full of gold C G F To cash in when the final deal goes down C G C G But maybe we can turn the world around C G (3x)