Key: Gb major
Verse 1
F#
C#
B
C#
F#
C#
B
C#
F#
C#
I hear footsteps walking down
B
C#
F#
C#
B
the hallway in the middle of the night
C#
F#
C#
B
Then I start hearing little sounds become
C#
F#
C#
B
so magnified here in the quiet
C#
B
A#m
The kitchen phone that rings,
F#
B
A#m
G#m
Speaking in a whisper, I'm left to wonder why
A#m
G#m
I've got a lonely feel in' that I'm hearin'
B
C#sus4
F#
The sounds of goodbye
C#
B
C#
F#
C#
B
The sounds of goodbye
C#
F#
C#
B
Your stocking feet that subtly tip -toe through
C#
F#
C#
B
the room where I lay half -asleep
C#
F#
The clinking hangers,
C#
B
C#
F#
C#
B
fum bling hands that close across a door that always creaks
C#
B
A#m
G#m
The snapping latches on the suitcase that you carried with
F#
B
A#m
G#m
you to your mother's on those weekends many times
C#sus4
F#
The sounds of goodbyes,
C#
B
C#
F#
C#
B
the sounds of goodbyes
D
G
D
C
D
G
D
The scratchin' of a pencil,
C
D
G
D
C
writing words upon a note, I'll hate to read it
D
G
D
C
I call your name and hear a deafening silence,
D
G
D
C
D
then the closing of a door.
C
Bm
Am
A roaring motor in the street, a stranger's cutting voice,
G
C
D
then the vi olent rush of teardrops
Bm
Am
From my eyes, I've got a lonely
Bm
C
D
feeling that I'm hearin'
G
D
The sounds of goodbye
C
D
G
D
The sounds of goodbye
C
D
G
Bm
C
D
G
The sounds of goodbye
you
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