Key: Eb major
Verse 1
F#
C#
E#
C#
Understand
F#
E#
F#
E#
G#
the night
D#dim
G#m
When she flashes her sparkling
D#m
G#m
Ddim
eyes at dusk
C#
D#
Daug
D
F#
She flirts with twilight
B
G#m
When the noise of day
C#
F#
Daug
dies away
Verse 2
Daug
The night and twilight stay and stay
C#m
E
F#
Making quiet love up high
B
E
B
over the town
Bm
A#m
E#
And the gentle twilight gives his light
G#m
A
Making a queen of night
Verse 3
G#m
C#
G#m
C#
I would write a sonnet of the night
A#m
D#
as a remembrance of your eyes
G#m
C#
And, if you'd promise not to tell
F#
C#
I could whisper the words
F#
Adim
in the dark, like a lover
D#m
Dm
the shooting stars
Gsus4
C#
Talk of lovers through the ages
Ddim
C#
F#
who had lived out of their dreams
Verse 4
F#
Daug
they needed to live in a dream
F#
Daug
C#m
To burn, with every breath so serene
F#
B
first to find love at all
Bm
D
Like night and twilight
Bm
Verse 5
A#
Am
first of lovers ever
G#m
A
Could we be like them?
G#m
C#
Hold on to one another
C#
F#
B
Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight,
Interlude 1
kiss again
B
F#
B
E#dim
A#aug
Bdim
E
A#dim
D#
C#m
E#
C#aug
F#m
F#
C#
A#m
A#dim
D#
G#dim
Ddim
C#
Verse 6
D#m
C#
My love
C#m
A
Adim
Adim
My one and only love
G#m
B
G#m
D#m
G#m
Let me take you out un
Gsus4
C#
der the moon light
C#aug
F#
And show how the twi
D
Daug
light loves the night
F#
B
G
B
Why he lives for an hour of loving
C#
A#m
C#
E#
Adim
G#m
through life times of longing
D
G
Asus4
D#
G#m
F#
B
C#
And sings his moonlight
Outro 1
serenade
Bm
A
D
C#m
F#
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