Intro
D#
[Verse]
G#
Telephone wire
D#
Run and run
G#
Telephone wire
D#
Sundown on the creek
A#
Partly frozen, partly flowing
A#
Must be windy, trees are bending
A#
Junction 50 field needs mowing
A#
Feels like the car is floating
[Chorus]
G#
Say something!
D# D#sus2 D#
Talk to him!
G#
Say something!
D# D#sus2 D#
Anything!
G# D#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
G#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
G#sus2
Like, you could say
Cm
"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]
C# F#
"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
C# F
D# seedy club for folks like… you know
F#
Could be fun"
C# F
"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
D#
"Yeah, right"
[Verse]
G#
Telephone wire
D#
Long black line
G#
Telephone wire
D#
Finely threaded sky
A#7
There's the pond where I went wading
A#7
There's a sign for Sugar Valley
A#7
On the mountain, light is fading
A#7
I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
G#
Say something!
D# D#sus2 D#
Talk to him!
G#
Say something!
D# D#sus2 D#
Anything!
G# D#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
G#
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
G#sus2
Doesn't matter what you say
Cm
Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
C#
"There was a boy in college
F#
My first year there
F#
Norris Jones
C# F
He had black, wavy hair
F#
Norris Jones
C# F7
Where is he now?
C#
Fourteen years old
F#
In Swanson's barn
F#
It was cold
C#
Lots of boys messed around, you know
F F#
For them, it was a game they outgrew
F7 F#
But I always knew"
F#
"Dad, me too!
C#
Since, like, five, I guess
C#
I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
F#
I felt absurd in a dress
D#m
I really tried to deny my feelings for girls
C#
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…"
D#
[Verse]
G#
Telephone wire
D#
Stop! Too fast!
G#
Telephone wire
D#
Make this not the past
G#
This car ride
B
This is where it has to happen!
B
There must be some other chances
B
There's a moment I'm forgetting
B
Where you tell me you see me
[Chorus]
A
Say something!
Fb
Talk to me!
A
Say something!
Fb
Anything!
A Fb
At the light
A Fb
At the light
B
This can't be our last—
[Outro]
N.C. D#
"Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?"
G# D#
Telephone wire
G# D#
That was our last night