Key: Eb major
Verse 1
C
G
B
G
Understand
C
B
C
B
D
the night
Adim
Dm
When she flashes her sparkling
Am
Dm
Abdim
eyes at dusk
G
A
Abaug
Ab
C
She flirts with twilight
F
Dm
When the noise of day
G
C
Abaug
dies away
Verse 2
Abaug
The night and twilight stay and stay
Gm
Bb
C
Making quiet love up high
F
Bb
F
over the town
Fm
Em
B
And the gentle twilight gives his light
Dm
Eb
Making a queen of night
Verse 3
Dm
G
Dm
G
I would write a sonnet of the night
Em
A
as a remembrance of your eyes
Dm
G
And, if you'd promise not to tell
C
G
I could whisper the words
C
Ebdim
in the dark, like a lover
Am
Abm
the shooting stars
Dbsus4
G
Talk of lovers through the ages
Abdim
G
C
who had lived out of their dreams
Verse 4
C
Abaug
they needed to live in a dream
C
Abaug
Gm
To burn, with every breath so serene
C
F
first to find love at all
Fm
Ab
Like night and twilight
Fm
Verse 5
E
Ebm
first of lovers ever
Dm
Eb
Could we be like them?
Dm
G
Hold on to one another
G
C
F
Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight,
Interlude 1
kiss again
F
C
F
Bdim
Eaug
Fdim
Bb
Edim
A
Gm
B
Gaug
Cm
C
G
Em
Edim
A
Ddim
Abdim
G
Verse 6
Am
G
My love
Gm
Eb
Ebdim
Ebdim
My one and only love
Dm
F
Dm
Am
Dm
Let me take you out un
Dbsus4
G
der the moon light
Gaug
C
And show how the twi
Ab
Abaug
light loves the night
C
F
Db
F
Why he lives for an hour of loving
G
Em
G
B
Ebdim
Dm
through lifetimes of longing
Ab
Db
Ebsus4
A
Dm
C
F
G
And sings his moonlight
Outro 1
serenade
Fm
Eb
Ab
Gm
C
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