Intro
B
[Verse]
E
Telephone wire
B
Run and run
E
Telephone wire
B
Sundown on the creek
F#
Partly frozen, partly flowing
F#
Must be windy, trees are bending
F#
Junction 50 field needs mowing
F#
Feels like the car is floating
[Chorus]
E
Say something!
B Bsus2 B
Talk to him!
E
Say something!
B Bsus2 B
Anything!
E B
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
E
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
Esus2
Like, you could say
G#m
"So, how does it feel to know that you and I are both—"
[dialogue]
N.C.
"Hey"
N.C.
"Yeah?"
N.C.
"Where do you want to go?"
N.C.
"Oh, I don't know"
[Bridge]
A D
"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
A C#
B seedy club for folks like… you know
D
Could be fun"
A C#
"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
B
"Yeah, right"
[Verse]
E
Telephone wire
B
Long black line
E
Telephone wire
B
Finely threaded sky
F#7
There's the pond where I went wading
F#7
There's a sign for Sugar Valley
F#7
On the mountain, light is fading
F#7
I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
E
Say something!
B Bsus2 B
Talk to him!
E
Say something!
B Bsus2 B
Anything!
E B
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
E
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
Esus2
Doesn't matter what you say
G#m
Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
A
"There was a boy in college
D
My first year there
D
Norris Jones
A C#
He had black, wavy hair
D
Norris Jones
A C#7
Where is he now?
A
Fourteen years old
D
In Swanson's barn
D
It was cold
A
Lots of boys messed around, you know
C# D
For them, it was a game they outgrew
C#7 D
But I always knew"
D
"Dad, me too!
A
Since, like, five, I guess
A
I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
D
I felt absurd in a dress
Bm
I really tried to deny my feelings for girls
A
But I was like you, Dad me too"
N.C.
"Norris Jones…"
N.C.
"Dad?"
N.C.
"Norris Jones…"
N.C.
"Dad?"
N.C.
"Hey, did I mention that new project I've taken on? You've seen it, Al, that old house out on Route 150?
It's been standing empty forty, fifty years at least…"
B
[Verse]
E
Telephone wire
B
Stop! Too fast!
E
Telephone wire
B
Make this not the past
E
This car ride
G
This is where it has to happen!
G
There must be some other chances
G
There's a moment I'm forgetting
G
Where you tell me you see me
[Chorus]
F
Say something!
C
Talk to me!
F
Say something!
C
Anything!
F C
At the light
F C
At the light
G
This can't be our last—
[Outro]
N.C. B
"Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?"
E B
Telephone wire
E B
That was our last night