Speed of Sound

How (A5)long before I get (Em)in,

before it starts, before I (D)begin?

How (A5)long before you (Em)decide,

before I know what it feels like?

(D)Where (A5)to, where do I go?

(Em)If you never try,

then you'll never know.

(D)How (A5)long do I have to climb

(Em)up on the side of this mountain of mine?

(D)Look (A5)up, I look up at night.

(Em)Planets are moving at the speed of light.

sign (D)Climb (A5)up, ings up in the trees.

(Em)Ev'ry chance that you get is a chance you seize.

(D)How (A5)long am I gonna stand

(Em)with my head stuck under the sand?

(D)I'll (A5)start before I can stop,

(Em)but before I see things the right way up.

(D)me.

(G)All that noise

(A)and all that sound.

(G)All those (A)places I got found.

(Bm7)And (G)birds go flyin' at the (Bm)speed of sound

to (D)show ya how it all began.

(G)Birds came flyin' from the (Bm)underground.

If you could (F#m)see it then you'd understand.

(D)(A5)Ideas that you'll never find.

(Em)All the inventors at could never design

(D)the (A5)build ings that you put up.

(Em)Ev Like Japan and China a all lit up.

(D)A (A5)sign that I couldn't read

(Em)or a light that I couldn't see.

(D)Some (A5)things you have to believe,

(Em)but others are puzzles, the puzzlin' (D)me.

(G)All that noise

(A)and all that sound.

(G)All those (A)places I got found.

(Bm7)And (G)birds go flyin' at the (Bm)speed of sound

to (D)show ya how it all began.

(G)Birds came flyin' from the (Bm)underground.

If you could (F#m)see it then you'd understand.