Key: E
Introduction:
A D G
I would shun the light, share in evening's cool and quiet
C B
Who would trade that hum of night
D G Em
For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
A
But whose heart would not take flight
D G
Betray the moon as acolyte
C B
On first and fierce affirming sight
D G Em
Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
D
I had been lost to you sunlight
A Em
And flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight
B7
Oh, your love is sunlight
C
Oh, your love is sunlight
G Em
Oh, but it is sunlight
A
All the tales the same
D G
Told before and told again
C B
A soul that’s born in cold and rain
D G Em
Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
A
And at last can grant a name
D G
To a buried and a burning flame
C B
As love and its decisive pain
D G Em
Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
D
All that was shown to me, sunlight
A Em
There's somethin' foreknown to me, sunlight, oh sunlight
B7
Oh, your love is sunlight
C
Oh, your love is sunlight
G Em
But it is sunlight
B7
Oh, your love is sunlight
C
Oh, your love is sunlight
G Em
But it is sunlight, sunlight
C D G Bm7
Oh, all these colors fade for you (only)
Am B Em D G
Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight
C D G Bm7
Oh, all these colors fade for you (only)
Am B Em D G
Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight
( Em )
A
Each day, you'd rise with me
D G
Know that I would gladly be
C B
The Icarus to your certainty
D G Em
Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
A
Strap the wings to me
D G
Death trap clad happily
C B
With wax melted, I'd meet the sea
D G Em
Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
B7
Oh, your love is sunlight
C
Oh, your love is sunlight
G Em
But it is sunlight
B7
Oh, your love is sunlight
C
Oh, your love is sunlight
G Em
But it is sunlight
B7
Oh, your love is sunlight
C
Oh, your love is sunlight
G Em
But it is sunlight
B7
Oh, your love is sunlight
C
Oh, your love is sunlight
G Em
But it is sunlight
Em
Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight