Intro
F#
[Verse]
B
Telephone wire
F#
Run and run
B
Telephone wire
F#
Sundown on the creek
C#
Partly frozen, partly flowing
C#
Must be windy, trees are bending
C#
Junction 50 field needs mowing
C#
Feels like the car is floating
[Chorus]
B
Say something!
F# F#sus2 F#
Talk to him!
B
Say something!
F# F#sus2 F#
Anything!
B F#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
B
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
Bsus2
Like, you could say
D#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]
E A
"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
E G#
F# seedy club for folks like… you know
A
Could be fun"
E G#
"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
F#
"Yeah, right"
[Verse]
B
Telephone wire
F#
Long black line
B
Telephone wire
F#
Finely threaded sky
C#7
There's the pond where I went wading
C#7
There's a sign for Sugar Valley
C#7
On the mountain, light is fading
C#7
I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
B
Say something!
F# F#sus2 F#
Talk to him!
B
Say something!
F# F#sus2 F#
Anything!
B F#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
B
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
Bsus2
Doesn't matter what you say
D#m
Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
E
"There was a boy in college
A
My first year there
A
Norris Jones
E G#
He had black, wavy hair
A
Norris Jones
E G#7
Where is he now?
E
Fourteen years old
A
In Swanson's barn
A
It was cold
E
Lots of boys messed around, you know
G# A
For them, it was a game they outgrew
G#7 A
But I always knew"
A
"Dad, me too!
E
Since, like, five, I guess
E
I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
A
I felt absurd in a dress
F#m
I really tried to deny my feelings for girls
E
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…"
F#
[Verse]
B
Telephone wire
F#
Stop! Too fast!
B
Telephone wire
F#
Make this not the past
B
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]
C
Say something!
G
Talk to me!
C
Say something!
G
Anything!
C G
At the light
C G
At the light
D
This can't be our last—
[Outro]
N.C. F#
"Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?"
B F#
Telephone wire
B F#
That was our last night