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Wonders

Lyrics and Music ©2009 by Bill Roper


All things considered, it is a pretty wonderful world.

Now, if I could just figure out a way to get out into space and take a good look at it...

(Chorus)
G                   C             D7
I want to live in a world full of wonders.
G                      C           D7
I want to look for the man who can fly.
F                      Am7
I want a ring that can grant all my wishes,
F                    D7/9             D7
Want to wear it as I soar through the sky.
G                          C           D7
I want to be the man who's faster than lightning.
G                     C        D7
I want to travel on a teleport beam.
F                         Am7         
I want to be the man that villains find frightening
F                             D7/9      D7
And know that heroes are just what they seem.

        Em               Bm
But the world outside my window
     F                           D
Is a darker place than I want to see.
    Em                Bm
The men who write the spin know
         F                             Am        D
And they tell you you're a fool if you want to believe.
        Em                   B            C                           D
Still I think that sooner or later, we're gonna have to find some new dreams
      C                           A                   D      D7
If we want to fix a world that is coming apart at the seams.

Now I'm looking for some wonders
When wonders aren't that easy to find.
I add up all the blunders
And I run around in rings till I'm losing my mind.
So I'm searching through the systems and doing what the data demands,
‘Cause we've got to get a grip on the wonders we hold in our hands.

(Bridge)
      Am7           D
We've more than any race
       G                  Em
That's lived here in this place – 
     Am             D                 G     G7
More power than the pharaohs could command.
   Am7               D
At work, at home, at play,
        G             Em
We make miracles each day
    A                 A7             D      D7
And write the name of man across the land.

Now the dark side of the Earth
Is shining with the light made by man.
The world has given birth
And now it's just a matter of deciding we can
Take the wonders we have mastered and the wonders we have yet to behold
‘Cause I want to see that wonderful world before I get old.

G                   C             D7
I want to live in a world full of wonders.
G                   C             D7
I want to live in a world full of wonders.
G                   C             D7           G
I want to live in a world full of wonders.