Intro
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[Verse]
A#
Telephone wire
F
Run and run
A#
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]
A#
Say something!
F Fsus2 F
Talk to him!
A#
Say something!
F Fsus2 F
Anything!
A# F
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
A#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
A#sus2
Like, you could say
Dm
"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]
D# G#
"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
D# G
F seedy club for folks like… you know
G#
Could be fun"
D# G
"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
F
"Yeah, right"
[Verse]
A#
Telephone wire
F
Long black line
A#
Telephone wire
F
Finely threaded sky
C7
There's the pond where I went wading
C7
There's a sign for Sugar Valley
C7
On the mountain, light is fading
C7
I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
A#
Say something!
F Fsus2 F
Talk to him!
A#
Say something!
F Fsus2 F
Anything!
A# F
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
A#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
A#sus2
Doesn't matter what you say
Dm
Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
D#
"There was a boy in college
G#
My first year there
G#
Norris Jones
D# G
He had black, wavy hair
G#
Norris Jones
D# G7
Where is he now?
D#
Fourteen years old
G#
In Swanson's barn
G#
It was cold
D#
Lots of boys messed around, you know
G G#
For them, it was a game they outgrew
G7 G#
But I always knew"
G#
"Dad, me too!
D#
Since, like, five, I guess
D#
I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
G#
I felt absurd in a dress
Fm
I really tried to deny my feelings for girls
D#
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]
A#
Telephone wire
F
Stop! Too fast!
A#
Telephone wire
F
Make this not the past
A#
This car ride
C#
This is where it has to happen!
C#
There must be some other chances
C#
There's a moment I'm forgetting
C#
Where you tell me you see me
[Chorus]
Cb
Say something!
Gb
Talk to me!
Cb
Say something!
Gb
Anything!
Cb Gb
At the light
Cb Gb
At the light
C#
This can't be our last—
[Outro]
N.C. F
"Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?"
A# F
Telephone wire
A# F
That was our last night