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Farthest Lights
Freedy Johnston
Text File
Freedy Johnston - "The Farthest Lights"
Notes:
Song is from "Blue Days Black Nights" 1999
Chords:
C [3 3 2 0 1 0]
Bb [x 1 3 3 3 1]
Dm7 [x x 0 2 1 1]
G [3 2 0 0 3 3]
Intro:
C Bb C Bb C Bb Dm7 G
Verse:
C Bb
At the window by yourself
C Bb
I'm outside with everyone else
C Bb
hold yourself against the chill and
Dm7 G
look at me with no expression
C Bb
in the eyes I know so well
C Bb
is a question and a spell
C Bb
an astronomer all my life I've
Dm7 G
never seen a light so pale
Chorus:
Dm7 G
the night is clear when the stars a-
Dm7 G
-ppear I recite their names
Dm7 G
the farthest lights only now a-
Dm7 G
-rrive wonder how they've changed
C Bb C Bb
Verse:
C Bb
everybody says goodbye
C Bb
driving off into the night
C Bb
I look up when the moon comes out then
Dm7 G
shut the gate and go inside
C Bb
more distant every day
C Bb
I will ask but you won't say
C Bb
Do I watch the sky too much fa-
Dm7 G
-miliar and so far away
Chorus:
Dm7 G
the stars appeared but they're always
Dm7 G
there up above the day
Dm7 G
the farthest lights take us back in
Dm7 G
time wonder how they've changed
Break:
C Bb C Bb C Bb Dm7 G
Chorus:
Dm7 G
the stars appeared but they're always
Dm7 G
there up above the day
Dm7 G
the farthest lights only now a-
Dm7 G
-rrive wonder how they've changed
C Bb C Bb C Bb Dm7 G