Verse
F#
I sang the song slowly
C#6 F#
As she stood in the shadows
B
She stepped to the light
C#6 F#
As my silver strings spun
F# C#
She called with her eyes
B F#
To the tune I’s a-playing
F# F#sus4
But the song it was long
C#6 F# F#sus4 F#sus2
And I’d only begun
[Verse 2]
F#
Through a bullet of light
C#6 F#
Her face was reflecting
B
The fast fading words
C#6 F#
That rolled from my tongue
F# C#
With a long-distance look
B F#
Her eyes was on fire
F# F#sus4
But the song it was long
C#6 F# F#sus4 F#sus2
And there was more to be sung
[Verse 3]
F#
My eyes danced a circle
C#6 F#
Across her clear outline
B
With her head tilted sideways
C#6 F#
She called me again
F# C#
As the tune drifted out
B F#
She breathed hard through the echo
F# F#sus4
But the song it was long
C#6 F# F#sus4 F#sus2
And it was far to the end
[Verse 4]
F#
I glanced at my guitar
C#6 F#
And played it pretending
B
That of all the eyes out there
C#6 F#
I could see none
F# C#
As her thoughts pounded hard
B F#
Like the pierce of an arrow
F# F#sus4
But the song it was long
C#6 F# F#sus4 F#sus2
And it had to get done
[Verse 5]
F#
As the tune finally folded
C#6 F#
I laid down the guitar
B
Then looked for the girl
C#6 F#
Who’d stayed for so long
F# C#
But her shadow was missing
B F#
For all of my searching
F# F#sus4
So I picked up my guitar
C#6 F# F#sus4 F#sus2
And began the next song