Key: C
Introduction: Dm C F C Dm C Gm F Dm Dm C F C Dm C Gm F Dm
D
Twilight falls, ghostly the hands
Bb
That reach out for you
D
Through the mist of these alien lands
A Bb F C
Swallowed away on the road to forever
D
Like a storm the wraith of advance
D
Forced its will upon you
Sacred yesterdays, lucid and vast
A Bb F C
Blink of an eye it's all coming together
Bb
Like a relic of a long bygone time
G C
Moonflowers grow from the back of your mind
A
Hold on, yeah (Fire in the night)
Bm G Bm
I see ghosts, spectres light around me
D
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Em
Fire in the night
Bm G Bm
One by one, pictures gather round me
G A G A
Where those moonflowers used to grow
D
Lost no more, spectres gather round here
Bm A G A
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Bm G Bm
Night by night, stare into the black
Em F#m Gm Bm Am
Moonflowers used to grow
D
As I walk through the mist
Bb
Down the ruins of things that used to be
D
Silent remnants of magical times
A Bb
A cabinet of curiosities
D
Old companions and past Christmas ghosts
A Bb
Juvenile levity
D
Sacred gatherings, pictures of days
A Bb F C
Swallowed away on the road to forever
Bb
A covert society buried in time
G
Once bent on survival
Now kicked out of line
A
Oh, I hold on (A fire in the night)
Bm G Bm
I see ghosts, spectres light around me
D
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Em
Fire in the night
Bm G Bm
One by one, pictures gather round me
G A G A
Where those moonflowers used to grow
D
Lost no more, spectres gather round here
Bm A G A
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Bm G Bm
Night by night, stare into the black
Em F#m Gm Bm Am
Moonflowers used to grow
A
And quite suddenly
G
Just as if somebody slammed the door
Bb F
Halcyon days buried in halcyon lore
D
As silence prevails
C
Fragments come passing me by
Bb
Slipping right through
A
A crevice in time, oh (Fire in the night)
Bm G Bm
I see ghosts, spectres light around me
D
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Em
Fire in the night
Bm G Bm
One by one, pictures gather round me
G A G A
Where those moonflowers used to grow
D
Lost no more, spectres gather round here
Bm A G A
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Bm G Bm
Night by night, stare into the black
Em F#m Gm Bm Am
Moonflowers used to grow