Turn the lights back on (2014)     (video)

 

        C                         F

1. Please, open the door,

                      G                                           E

    nothing is different, we've been here before,

                           Am                 D                   G         - F - Em

    pacing these halls, trying to talk over the silence.

 

              C                          F

2. And pride sticks out its tongue,

                            G                               E

    laughs at the portrait that we've become,

                      Am                        D                     G     - F - Em

    stuck in a frame, unable to change, I was wrong.

 

       C                   F             G

I'm late, but I'm here right now,

               E                    Am              D            G

though I used to be romantic, I forgot somehow

                  F     - G        C

time can make       you blind.

            F          G                  E                Am

But I see you now as we're layin' in the darkness.

            D        G                      F       - G          C

Did I wait too long to turn the lights       back on ?

 

+  C - F - G - F - Em

 

       C                       F

3. Herе, stuck on a hill

                    G                                      E

    outsiders inside the homе that we built,

                            Am                            D          G                  - F

    the cold settles in, it's been a long winter of indifference.

                               C                                F

    And maybe you love me, maybe you don't,

                          G                                      E

    maybe you'll learn to and maybe you won't.

                          Am                               D          G   - F - Em

    You've had enough, but I won't give up on you.

 

      C                   F              G

I'm late, but I'm here right now,

               E                      Am                 D               G

and I'm tryin' to find the magic that we lost somehow.

            F  - G           C

Maybe I          was blind,

           F           G                  E                 Am

but I see you now as we're layin' in the darkness.

           D          G         F         G                Am

Did I wait too long to turn the lights back on ?

 

+  Am - D - G - C   - F - Am - G   - F - Am - G

 

       C                  F              G

I'm late, but I'm here right now.

                E                          Am

Is there still time for forgiveness?

                  D          G      - F                              C

Won't you tell me how ?       I can't read your mind.

          F             G                 E                 Am

But I see you now as we're layin' in the darkness

           D          G                      F      - G           C      - F

Did I wait too long to turn the lights        back on ?

 

                            G   - E                                 Am   - D

+  I'm here right now,       yes, I'm here right now

                           G            - F - G

    lookin' for forgiveness.

                C                 F                 G

    I can see as we're layin' in the darkness,

                             E                 Am

    yeah, as we're layin' in the darkness,

               D         G    - F                   G               C

    did I wait too long       to turn the lights back on ?

 

    (Billy Joel)