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
A
Feels like the car is floating
[Chorus]
G
Say something!
D Dsus2 D
Talk to him!
G
Say something!
D Dsus2 D
Anything!
G D
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
Gsus2
Like, you could say
Bm
"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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D seedy club for folks like… you know
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Could be fun"
C E
"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
D
"Yeah, right"
[Verse]
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Telephone wire
D
Long black line
G
Telephone wire
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Finely threaded sky
A7
There's the pond where I went wading
A7
There's a sign for Sugar Valley
A7
On the mountain, light is fading
A7
I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
G
Say something!
D Dsus2 D
Talk to him!
G
Say something!
D Dsus2 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
Gsus2
Doesn't matter what you say
Bm
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?
C
Fourteen years old
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In Swanson's barn
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It was cold
C
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!
C
Since, like, five, I guess
C
I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
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I felt absurd in a dress
Dm
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…"
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[Verse]
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Telephone wire
D
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]
Ab
Say something!
Eb
Talk to me!
Ab
Say something!
Eb
Anything!
Ab Eb
At the light
Ab Eb
At the light
A#
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