Key: C
Introduction:
C9/G F9/G C9/G F9/G
Verse: 1
C9 F6/C
There was a certain face that filled a thousand nights,
C Em F Dm
With all the sweetest dreams and promises of paradise.
E7/B E E7/G# Am Eaug/G#
But that face was gone when the dawn would come and steal you.
Am7/G D9/F# Dm7/F Dm
Yet I still could feel you waiting just a kiss away.
G7(4) C9 F6/C
I'd surely know your face, your love would cast a spell.
C Em F F#º
I'd recognize each curve and line of you, I knew it well.
C/G Csus4/G G7(4)
Now at last you're here and I can tell.
G C Em7
Something in your eyes I see,
F9 Dm Dm/G
Is all I ever wanted,
C Am D/F# G
And something in your smile for me is calling out my name.
C Em7
Your eyes, it seems,
F Dm6/B
Are mirrors of my dreams,
E7 Am7 G#aug/D D9
In ways I can't explain.
Dm G7(4) C9/G F9/G C9/G F9/G
And my heart will never be the same.
Verse: 2
C9 F6/C
We never said a word, as if we'd always known.
C Em F Dm
But through the bittersweet of waiting we were not alone.
E7/B E E/G# Am Eaug/G#
Now we're close enough for the touch of love to find us.
Am7/G D9/F# Dm7/F Dm
Fantasies designed us but they never really could,
G7(4) C9 F6/C
Begin to measure you, no pictures ever do.
C Em F F#º
And as I watch you framed the sunlight in a sky of blue,
C/G Csus4/G G7(4)
I know what my life's been leading to.
G C Em7
Something in your eyes I see,
F9 Dm Dm/G
Is all I ever wanted,
C Am D/F# G
And something in your smile for me is calling out my name.
C Em7
Your eyes, it seems,
F Dm6/B
Are mirrors of my dreams,
E7 Am7 G#aug/D D9
In ways I can't explain.
Dm G7(4)
And my heart will never be the same.
Instrumental
Ab7(4) Ab Db Fm7
Something in your eyes I see,
Gb9 Ebm
Is all I ever wanted,
Db Bbm7 Eb/G Ab
And something in your smile for me is calling out my name.
Db Fm7
Your eyes, it seems,
Gb9 Ebm6/C
Are mirrors of my dreams,
F7 Bbm7 A+ Eb9
In ways I can't explain.
Ebm Db/F Eb9/G
And my heart will never be the same.
Db Ab7(4)
And my heart will never be the same.
Db Fm7 E2 Ebº Ab Bb9
...something in your eyes.