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 Gsus2 G
Talk to him!
C
Say something!
G Gsus2 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
Csus2
Like, you could say
Em
"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 A#
"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
F A
G seedy club for folks like… you know
A#
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
D7
There's the pond where I went wading
D7
There's a sign for Sugar Valley
D7
On the mountain, light is fading
D7
I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
C
Say something!
G Gsus2 G
Talk to him!
C
Say something!
G Gsus2 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
Csus2
Doesn't matter what you say
Em
Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
F
"There was a boy in college
A#
My first year there
A#
Norris Jones
F A
He had black, wavy hair
A#
Norris Jones
F A7
Where is he now?
F
Fourteen years old
A#
In Swanson's barn
A#
It was cold
F
Lots of boys messed around, you know
A A#
For them, it was a game they outgrew
A7 A#
But I always knew"
A#
"Dad, me too!
F
Since, like, five, I guess
F
I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
A#
I felt absurd in a dress
Gm
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
D#
This is where it has to happen!
D#
There must be some other chances
D#
There's a moment I'm forgetting
D#
Where you tell me you see me
[Chorus]
Db
Say something!
Ab
Talk to me!
Db
Say something!
Ab
Anything!
Db Ab
At the light
Db Ab
At the light
D#
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