Key: Eb major
Verse 1
E
B
D#
B
Understand
E
D#
E
D#
F#
the night
C#dim
F#m
When she flashes her sparkling
C#m
F#m
Cdim
eyes at dusk
B
C#
Caug
C
E
She flirts with twilight
A
F#m
When the noise of day
B
E
Caug
dies away
Verse 2
Caug
The night and twilight stay and stay
Bm
D
E
Making quiet love up high
A
D
A
over the town
Am
G#m
D#
And the gentle twilight gives his light
F#m
G
Making a queen of night
Verse 3
F#m
B
F#m
B
I would write a sonnet of the night
G#m
C#
as a remembrance of your eyes
F#m
B
And, if you'd promise not to tell
E
B
I could whisper the words
E
Gdim
in the dark, like a lover
C#m
Cm
the shooting stars
Fsus4
B
Talk of lovers through the ages
Cdim
B
E
who had lived out of their dreams
Verse 4
E
Caug
they needed to live in a dream
E
Caug
Bm
To burn, with every breath so serene
E
A
first to find love at all
Am
C
Like night and twilight
Am
Verse 5
G#
Gm
first of lovers ever
F#m
G
Could we be like them?
F#m
B
Hold on to one another
B
E
A
Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight,
Interlude 1
kiss again
A
E
A
D#dim
G#aug
Adim
D
G#dim
C#
Bm
D#
Baug
Em
E
B
G#m
G#dim
C#
F#dim
Cdim
B
Verse 6
C#m
B
My love
Bm
G
Gdim
Gdim
My one and only love
F#m
A
F#m
C#m
F#m
Let me take you out un
Fsus4
B
der the moon light
Baug
E
And show how the twi
C
Caug
light loves the night
E
A
F
A
Why he lives for an hour of loving
B
G#m
B
D#
Gdim
F#m
through life times of longing
C
F
Gsus4
C#
F#m
E
A
B
And sings his moonlight
Outro 1
serenade
Am
G
C
Bm
E
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