Nightsong
Chords used in this version (in order of appearance): E, B7, A
E
It's late and the neighborhood's sleeping.
B7
Lightning and clouds fill the sky.
E
I can hear the refrain
A
Of a lonely old train
B7 E
Making it's way through the night.
And I can't help but look out the window
B7
And hope to see something out there.
E A
Something that's real or something I feel
E B7 E
Could chase out all the nightmares.
From this life. This life:
A B7
This sweetly strange world of mine.
E
This space. This time.
A B7 E
These thoughts of the dreamer tonight.
Break: (A, E, B7)
E
The night holds the trees in it's calmness,
B7
And I'm miles away from the sea,
E
But I think I may drown
A
In the lonely old sound
E B7 E
Of the words that lie shattered in me.
If truth died alone in the desert
B7
With only her the stars and her scythe,
E A
It could kill like a cancer to think that the answers
E B7 E
Are still hidden deep in the night
From this life. This life:
A B7
This sweetly strange world of mine.
E
This space, this time,
A B7 E
And these thoughts of the dreamer tonight.
Break: (B7, A, B7)
E
Waoh-oh! Don't you see going to heaven
B7
Is just in the thought that we might.
E A
And where does time go? Nobody knows
E B7 E
Until the days sink into night
In this life. This life:
A B7
This alien world night.
E
Somewhere it's right
A B7 E
In the thoughts of the dreamer-r.
B7 E B7
I'm just a dream.
E
I can hear the refrain
Of a lonely old train
B7
Making its way...
E
Through the night.