Key: Eb major
Verse 1
F
C
E
C
Understand
F
E
F
E
G
the night
Ddim
Gm
When she flashes her sparkling
Dm
Gm
Dbdim
eyes at dusk
C
D
Dbaug
Db
F
She flirts with twilight
Bb
Gm
When the noise of day
C
F
Dbaug
dies away
Verse 2
Dbaug
The night and twilight stay and stay
Cm
Eb
F
Making quiet love up high
Bb
Eb
Bb
over the town
Bbm
Am
E
And the gentle twilight gives his light
Gm
Ab
Making a queen of night
Verse 3
Gm
C
Gm
C
I would write a sonnet of the night
Am
D
as a remembrance of your eyes
Gm
C
And, if you'd promise not to tell
F
C
I could whisper the words
F
Abdim
in the dark, like a lover
Dm
Dbm
the shooting stars
F#sus4
C
Talk of lovers through the ages
Dbdim
C
F
who had lived out of their dreams
Verse 4
F
Dbaug
they needed to live in a dream
F
Dbaug
Cm
To burn, with every breath so serene
F
Bb
first to find love at all
Bbm
Db
Like night and twilight
Bbm
Verse 5
A
Abm
first of lovers ever
Gm
Ab
Could we be like them?
Gm
C
Hold on to one another
C
F
Bb
Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight,
Interlude 1
kiss again
Bb
F
Bb
Edim
Aaug
Bbdim
Eb
Adim
D
Cm
E
Caug
Fm
F
C
Am
Adim
D
Gdim
Dbdim
C
Verse 6
Dm
C
My love
Cm
Ab
Abdim
Abdim
My one and only love
Gm
Bb
Gm
Dm
Gm
Let me take you out un
F#sus4
C
der the moon light
Caug
F
And show how the twi
Db
Dbaug
light loves the night
F
Bb
F#
Bb
Why he lives for an hour of loving
C
Am
C
E
Abdim
Gm
through lifetimes of longing
Db
F#
Absus4
D
Gm
F
Bb
C
And sings his moonlight
Outro 1
serenade
Bbm
Ab
Db
Cm
F
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