Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
1. The morning
is dead, and the day is, too.
B
E
There's nothing left here to meet me, but the velvet moon.
C G D
All my loneliness I have felt today, it`s like a little
more than enough,
F
- G
to make a man
throw himself away.
F-G F - G F-G F–Dm–Bb–C
And I continue
to burn the midnight lamp, alone.
2. Now the smiling portrait of you is still hangin'
on my frowning wall.
B
E
It really doesn't, really doesn't bother
me too much at all.
C G
It's just the ever falling dust that makes it so hard for me to see,
D
that forgotten
earring layin' on the floor,
F
- G
facing coldly
towards the door.
F-G F-G
F-G
F–Dm–Bb–C
And I continue to burn the midnight lamp, Lord, alone.
3. So here I
sit to face that same old fire
place,
B E
gettin'
ready for the same old explosion goin' through my mind.
C
G
And soon enough time will tell, about the circus in the wishing well.
D
F
- G
And someone who will buy
and sell for me, someone to toll my
bell.
F-G F - G F-G
But I continue to burn the midnight lamp, Lord, alone.
F-G F G F G
Darlin' can't ya hear
me callin' you? So lonely.
F G F
- G
Gonna have to
blow my mind, lonely.