Intro
G#
[Verse]
C#
Telephone wire
G#
Run and run
C#
Telephone wire
G#
Sundown on the creek
D#
Partly frozen, partly flowing
D#
Must be windy, trees are bending
D#
Junction 50 field needs mowing
D#
Feels like the car is floating
[Chorus]
C#
Say something!
G# G#sus2 G#
Talk to him!
C#
Say something!
G# G#sus2 G#
Anything!
C# G#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
C#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
C#sus2
Like, you could say
Fm
"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]
F# B
"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
F# A#
G# seedy club for folks like… you know
B
Could be fun"
F# A#
"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
G#
"Yeah, right"
[Verse]
C#
Telephone wire
G#
Long black line
C#
Telephone wire
G#
Finely threaded sky
D#7
There's the pond where I went wading
D#7
There's a sign for Sugar Valley
D#7
On the mountain, light is fading
D#7
I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
C#
Say something!
G# G#sus2 G#
Talk to him!
C#
Say something!
G# G#sus2 G#
Anything!
C# G#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
C#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
C#sus2
Doesn't matter what you say
Fm
Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
F#
"There was a boy in college
B
My first year there
B
Norris Jones
F# A#
He had black, wavy hair
B
Norris Jones
F# A#7
Where is he now?
F#
Fourteen years old
B
In Swanson's barn
B
It was cold
F#
Lots of boys messed around, you know
A# B
For them, it was a game they outgrew
A#7 B
But I always knew"
B
"Dad, me too!
F#
Since, like, five, I guess
F#
I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
B
I felt absurd in a dress
G#m
I really tried to deny my feelings for girls
F#
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…"
G#
[Verse]
C#
Telephone wire
G#
Stop! Too fast!
C#
Telephone wire
G#
Make this not the past
C#
This car ride
E
This is where it has to happen!
E
There must be some other chances
E
There's a moment I'm forgetting
E
Where you tell me you see me
[Chorus]
D
Say something!
A
Talk to me!
D
Say something!
A
Anything!
D A
At the light
D A
At the light
E
This can't be our last—
[Outro]
N.C. G#
"Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?"
C# G#
Telephone wire
C# G#
That was our last night