Key: Eb major
Verse 1
Bb
F
A
F
Understand
Bb
A
Bb
A
C
the night
Gdim
Cm
When she flashes her sparkling
Gm
Cm
Gbdim
eyes at dusk
F
G
Gbaug
Gb
Bb
She flirts with twilight
Eb
Cm
When the noise of day
F
Bb
Gbaug
dies away
Verse 2
Gbaug
The night and twilight stay and stay
Fm
Ab
Bb
Making quiet love up high
Eb
Ab
Eb
over the town
Ebm
Dm
A
And the gentle twilight gives his light
Cm
Db
Making a queen of night
Verse 3
Cm
F
Cm
F
I would write a sonnet of the night
Dm
G
as a remembrance of your eyes
Cm
F
And, if you'd promise not to tell
Bb
F
I could whisper the words
Bb
Dbdim
in the dark, like a lover
Gm
Gbm
the shooting stars
Bsus4
F
Talk of lovers through the ages
Gbdim
F
Bb
who had lived out of their dreams
Verse 4
Bb
Gbaug
they needed to live in a dream
Bb
Gbaug
Fm
To burn, with every breath so serene
Bb
Eb
first to find love at all
Ebm
Gb
Like night and twilight
Ebm
Verse 5
D
Dbm
first of lovers ever
Cm
Db
Could we be like them?
Cm
F
Hold on to one another
F
Bb
Eb
Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight,
Interlude 1
kiss again
Eb
Bb
Eb
Adim
Daug
Ebdim
Ab
Ddim
G
Fm
A
Faug
Bbm
Bb
F
Dm
Ddim
G
Cdim
Gbdim
F
Verse 6
Gm
F
My love
Fm
Db
Dbdim
Dbdim
My one and only love
Cm
Eb
Cm
Gm
Cm
Let me take you out un
Bsus4
F
der the moon light
Faug
Bb
And show how the twi
Gb
Gbaug
light loves the night
Bb
Eb
B
Eb
Why he lives for an hour of loving
F
Dm
F
A
Dbdim
Cm
through lifetimes of longing
Gb
B
Dbsus4
G
Cm
Bb
Eb
F
And sings his moonlight
Outro 1
serenade
Ebm
Db
Gb
Fm
Bb
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