Verse
F#m
It was a slow day
F#m6
And the sun was beating
F#mE
On the soldiers by the side of the road
F#m
There was a bright light
F#m6
A shattering of shop windows
F#mE
The bomb in the baby carriage
D2
Was wired to the radio, and
EDsus2
These are the days of miracle and wonder
EDsus2
This is the long-distance call
EDsus2
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
EDsusB
The way we look to us all
C#mB4
The way we look to a distant constellation
E/G#D2
That's dying in a corner of the sky
F#mE5D5
These are the days of miracle and wonder
E5D2
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry
Verse
F#m
It was a dry wind
E
And it swept across the desert
D6C#m
And it curled into the circle of birth
F#m
And the dead sand
E
Falling on the children
D6
The mothers and the fathers
B
And the automatic earth
C#m9B5
These are the days of miracle and wonder
A6B
This is the long-distance call
C#mEE/G#B
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
C#mBA5
The way we look to us all
E/G#D2
The way we look to a distant constellation
C#mBD2
That's dying in a corner of the sky
EB
These are the days of miracle and wonder
ABD
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry
Verse
F#m
Well it's a turn-around jump shot
EA
It's everybody jump start
BmC#m
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
F#mE2
Medicine is magical and magical is art
D2
Think of the boy in the bubble
B
And the baby with the baboon heart
Verse
ED2
These are days of lasers in the jungle
A/C#D5
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
EBm7/D
Staccato signals of constant information
A/C#B
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires, and, baby
EE/G#B
These are the days of miracle and wonder
A5B
This is the long-distance call
C#mEE/G#B
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
C#mBA5
The way we look to us all, oh, yeah
BA
The way we look to a distant constellation
E/G#AB
That's dying in a corner of the sky
G#mF#
These are the days of miracle and wonder
C#mBsusB
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry