Key: Eb major
Verse 1
B
F#
A#
F#
Understand
B
A#
B
A#
C#
the night
G#dim
C#m
When she flashes her sparkling
G#m
C#m
Gdim
eyes at dusk
F#
G#
Gaug
G
B
She flirts with twilight
E
C#m
When the noise of day
F#
B
Gaug
dies away
Verse 2
Gaug
The night and twilight stay and stay
F#m
A
B
Making quiet love up high
E
A
E
over the town
Em
D#m
A#
And the gentle twilight gives his light
C#m
D
Making a queen of night
Verse 3
C#m
F#
C#m
F#
I would write a sonnet of the night
D#m
G#
as a remembrance of your eyes
C#m
F#
And, if you'd promise not to tell
B
F#
I could whisper the words
B
Ddim
in the dark, like a lover
G#m
Gm
the shooting stars
Csus4
F#
Talk of lovers through the ages
Gdim
F#
B
who had lived out of their dreams
Verse 4
B
Gaug
they needed to live in a dream
B
Gaug
F#m
To burn, with every breath so serene
B
E
first to find love at all
Em
G
Like night and twilight
Em
Verse 5
D#
Dm
first of lovers ever
C#m
D
Could we be like them?
C#m
F#
Hold on to one another
F#
B
E
Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight,
Interlude 1
kiss again
E
B
E
A#dim
D#aug
Edim
A
D#dim
G#
F#m
A#
F#aug
Bm
B
F#
D#m
D#dim
G#
C#dim
Gdim
F#
Verse 6
G#m
F#
My love
F#m
D
Ddim
Ddim
My one and only love
C#m
E
C#m
G#m
C#m
Let me take you out un
Csus4
F#
der the moon light
F#aug
B
And show how the twi
G
Gaug
light loves the night
B
E
C
E
Why he lives for an hour of loving
F#
D#m
F#
A#
Ddim
C#m
through life times of longing
G
C
Dsus4
G#
C#m
B
E
F#
And sings his moonlight
Outro 1
serenade
Em
D
G
F#m
B
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