Key: F
G
F
C
1. I can't light no more of your darkness,
G
F
all my pictures seem to fade to black and white.
F
C
I'm growing tired, and time stands still before me,
G
frozen here on the ladder of my life.
F
C
2. It's much too late to save myself from falling,
G
I took a chance and changed your way of life.
F
C
But you misread my meaning when I met you,
G
C
G
closed the door and left me blinded by the light.
C
Bb
Don't let the sun go down on me,
Am
D7
although I search myself, it's always someone else I see.
C
F
G
C
C7
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free, oh -
F
Dm
C
F
G
C
but losing everything is like the sun going down on me.
Bb
-F
-C
-F
-D
G
F
-G
F
C
3. I can't find, oh, the right romantic line,
G
F
but see me once and see the way I feel.
F
C
Don't discard me, just because you think I mean you harm.
G
C
G
But these cuts I have, oh they need love to help me heal, oh!
C
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