Key: Eb major
Verse 1
A
E
G#
E
Understand
A
G#
A
G#
B
the night
F#dim
Bm
When she flashes her sparkling
F#m
Bm
Fdim
eyes at dusk
E
F#
Faug
F
A
She flirts with twilight
D
Bm
When the noise of day
E
A
Faug
dies away
Verse 2
Faug
The night and twilight stay and stay
Em
G
A
Making quiet love up high
D
G
D
over the town
Dm
C#m
G#
And the gentle twilight gives his light
Bm
C
Making a queen of night
Verse 3
Bm
E
Bm
E
I would write a sonnet of the night
C#m
F#
as a remembrance of your eyes
Bm
E
And, if you'd promise not to tell
A
E
I could whisper the words
A
Cdim
in the dark, like a lover
F#m
Fm
the shooting stars
Bbsus4
E
Talk of lovers through the ages
Fdim
E
A
who had lived out of their dreams
Verse 4
A
Faug
they needed to live in a dream
A
Faug
Em
To burn, with every breath so serene
A
D
first to find love at all
Dm
F
Like night and twilight
Dm
Verse 5
C#
Cm
first of lovers ever
Bm
C
Could we be like them?
Bm
E
Hold on to one another
E
A
D
Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight,
Interlude 1
kiss again
D
A
D
G#dim
C#aug
Ddim
G
C#dim
F#
Em
G#
Eaug
Am
A
E
C#m
C#dim
F#
Bdim
Fdim
E
Verse 6
F#m
E
My love
Em
C
Cdim
Cdim
My one and only love
Bm
D
Bm
F#m
Bm
Let me take you out un
Bbsus4
E
der the moon light
Eaug
A
And show how the twi
F
Faug
light loves the night
A
D
Bb
D
Why he lives for an hour of loving
E
C#m
E
G#
Cdim
Bm
through life times of longing
F
Bb
Csus4
F#
Bm
A
D
E
And sings his moonlight
Outro 1
serenade
Dm
C
F
Em
A
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ChordsA E G# B F#dim...
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