Not dark yet (1997)    (video)

 

    C - F - C        - C - F - C     - C ~ ~

 

   C                                   - F                                       C

1.    Shadows are falling        and I've been here all day,

C                                 - F                                      C

    it's too hot to sleep        and time is running away.

G                              F   Em                 G     - C

    Feel like my soul has turned into steel,

Am                           G                   F              C

    I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

G                              F                     Em  - G             C

    There's not even room enough to be          anywhere,

Am                     G    - F                           C

    it's not dark, yet,        but it's getting there.

 

    C                                               - F                                 C

2.     Well, my sense of humanity       is going down the drain,

C                                                   F                                       C

    behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain.

G                             F                     Em      G    C

    She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so  kind,

Am                            G                F              C

    she put down in writin' what was in her mind.

G                            F Em                   - G            - C

    I just don't see why I should even        care,

Am                     G   - F                           C

    it's not dark, yet,        but it's getting there.

 

   C                                       - F                                  C

3.    Well, I been to London        and I been to gay Paris,

C                                 - F                              C

    I followed the river         and I got to the sea.

G                                      F                Em             G     - C

    I've been down to the bottom of a world full of lies,

Am                          G       - F                      C

    I ain't lookin for nothin'        in anyone's eyes.

G                            F              Em             G             - C

    Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear.

Am                    G    - F                           C

    it's not dark, yet,       but it's getting there.

 

+  instrumental = verse 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

   C                                                     - F                       C

4.    I was born here and I'll die here,        against my will,

C                                                  - F                            C

    I know it looks like I'm movin',       but I'm standin' still.

G                                 F         Em          - G            C

    Every nerve in my body is so naked         and numb,

                            Am                     G                           - F                  C

    I can't even remember what it was I came here to       get away from.

G                       F           Em      G       C

    Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer,

Am                    G   - F                            C

    it's not dark, yet,       but it's getting there.

 

+  instrumental = verse 4

 

(orig. = capo 4th)    (Bob Dylan)