Intro
A#
[Verse]
D#
Telephone wire
A#
Run and run
D#
Telephone wire
A#
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]
D#
Say something!
A# A#sus2 A#
Talk to him!
D#
Say something!
A# A#sus2 A#
Anything!
D# A#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
D#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
D#sus2
Like, you could say
Gm
"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]
G# C#
"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
G# C
A# seedy club for folks like… you know
C#
Could be fun"
G# C
"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
A#
"Yeah, right"
[Verse]
D#
Telephone wire
A#
Long black line
D#
Telephone wire
A#
Finely threaded sky
F7
There's the pond where I went wading
F7
There's a sign for Sugar Valley
F7
On the mountain, light is fading
F7
I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
D#
Say something!
A# A#sus2 A#
Talk to him!
D#
Say something!
A# A#sus2 A#
Anything!
D# A#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
D#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
D#sus2
Doesn't matter what you say
Gm
Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
G#
"There was a boy in college
C#
My first year there
C#
Norris Jones
G# C
He had black, wavy hair
C#
Norris Jones
G# C7
Where is he now?
G#
Fourteen years old
C#
In Swanson's barn
C#
It was cold
G#
Lots of boys messed around, you know
C C#
For them, it was a game they outgrew
C7 C#
But I always knew"
C#
"Dad, me too!
G#
Since, like, five, I guess
G#
I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
C#
I felt absurd in a dress
A#m
I really tried to deny my feelings for girls
G#
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…"
A#
[Verse]
D#
Telephone wire
A#
Stop! Too fast!
D#
Telephone wire
A#
Make this not the past
D#
This car ride
F#
This is where it has to happen!
F#
There must be some other chances
F#
There's a moment I'm forgetting
F#
Where you tell me you see me
[Chorus]
Fb
Say something!
Cb
Talk to me!
Fb
Say something!
Cb
Anything!
Fb Cb
At the light
Fb Cb
At the light
F#
This can't be our last—
[Outro]
N.C. A#
"Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?"
D# A#
Telephone wire
D# A#
That was our last night