Intro
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[Verse]
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Telephone wire
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Run and run
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Telephone wire
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Sundown on the creek
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Partly frozen, partly flowing
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Must be windy, trees are bending
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Junction 50 field needs mowing
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Feels like the car is floating
[Chorus]
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Say something!
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Talk to him!
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Say something!
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Anything!
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At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
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At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
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Like, you could say
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"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]
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"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
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E seedy club for folks like… you know
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Could be fun"
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"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
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"Yeah, right"
[Verse]
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Telephone wire
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Long black line
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Telephone wire
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Finely threaded sky
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There's the pond where I went wading
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There's a sign for Sugar Valley
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On the mountain, light is fading
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I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
A
Say something!
E Esus2 E
Talk to him!
A
Say something!
E Esus2 E
Anything!
A E
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
Asus2
Doesn't matter what you say
C#m
Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
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"There was a boy in college
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My first year there
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Norris Jones
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He had black, wavy hair
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Norris Jones
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Where is he now?
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Fourteen years old
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In Swanson's barn
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It was cold
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Lots of boys messed around, you know
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For them, it was a game they outgrew
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But I always knew"
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"Dad, me too!
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Since, like, five, I guess
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I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
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I felt absurd in a dress
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I really tried to deny my feelings for girls
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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…"
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[Verse]
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Telephone wire
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Stop! Too fast!
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Telephone wire
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Make this not the past
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This car ride
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This is where it has to happen!
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There must be some other chances
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There's a moment I'm forgetting
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Where you tell me you see me
[Chorus]
A#
Say something!
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Talk to me!
A#
Say something!
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Anything!
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At the light
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At the light
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This can't be our last—
[Outro]
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"Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?"
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Telephone wire
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That was our last night