Key: Db major
Intro 1
Ab
Verse 1
Ab
The night sets softly
Ab
B
Ab
With the hush of falling leaves
Casting shivering shadows
Gb
On the houses through the trees
Ab
And the light from a street
lamp
B
Ab
Paints a pattern on my wall
Gb
Like the pieces of a puzzle
Gb
Ab
Or a child's uneven scrawl
Verse 2
Ab
Up a narrow flight of stairs
B
Ab
In a narrow little room
As I lie upon my bed
Ab
Gb
In the early evening gloom
Ab
Im paled on my wall
B
Ab
My eyes can dimly see
Gb
The pattern of my life
Gb
Ab
And the puzzle that is me
Verse 3
Ab
From the moment of my birth
B
To the instant of my death
Ab
There are patterns I must follow
Gb
Just as I must breathe each breath
Ab
Like a rat in a maze
B
Ab
The path before me lies
Gb
And the pattern never al ters
Gb
Ab
Ab
Until the rat dies
Ab
Gb
Ab
Verse 4
The pattern still remains
B
Ab
On the wall where darkness fell
And it's fitting that it should
Gb
For in darkness I must dwell
Ab
Like the col or of my skin
B
Gb
Ab
Or the day that I grow old
Gb
My life is made of pat terns
Gb
That can scarcely be controlled
Ab
Outro 1
Ab
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ChordsAb B Gb
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