Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Ab
C
Ab
Understand
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C
Eb
the night
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Ebm
When she flashes her sparkling
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Ebm
Adim
eyes at dusk
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Aaug
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She flirts with twilight
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Ebm
When the noise of day
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Aaug
dies away
Verse 2
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The night and twilight stay and stay
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B
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Making quiet love up high
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B
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over the town
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And the gentle twilight gives his light
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E
Making a queen of night
Verse 3
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I would write a sonnet of the night
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Bb
as a remembrance of your eyes
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Ab
And, if you'd promise not to tell
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I could whisper the words
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Edim
in the dark, like a lover
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Am
the shooting stars
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Talk of lovers through the ages
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who had lived out of their dreams
Verse 4
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Aaug
they needed to live in a dream
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Aaug
Abm
To burn, with every breath so serene
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Gb
first to find love at all
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A
Like night and twilight
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Verse 5
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Em
first of lovers ever
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E
Could we be like them?
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Hold on to one another
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Db
Gb
Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight,
Interlude 1
kiss again
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Cdim
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Gbdim
B
Fdim
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Abm
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Fm
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Adim
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Verse 6
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My love
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E
Edim
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My one and only love
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Let me take you out un
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der the moon light
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And show how the twi
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light loves the night
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D
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Why he lives for an hour of loving
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C
Edim
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through lifetimes of longing
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D
Esus4
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Ebm
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Ab
And sings his moonlight
Outro 1
serenade
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A
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