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