Methinks I See Thee Jane

	  		


Intro: G   D   G   D 

verse 1 
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When the hush of night lays deep, when the moon shines eerie red 
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When most watchers are asleep and even nightmares stay in bed 
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I waited and I waited, to find the pictures in my mind 
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But a scene I’d not created and those pictures intertwined 
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Within a tangled dream, a firefly flits about 
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A scene almost unseen, just a flash, the flash goes out 

 
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With contradictions all about 
      D                C       G 
My convictions turn to doubt 
        D        C         ~    Am 
Oh, how bitter a thought’s free rein 
           D         G      C  D  G   C  D 
Methinks I see thee, Jane 



verse 2 
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Was that a gleam of golden hair, flashing here, flashing there 
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Or just a dream caught unaware, a vision of the moonlight’s glare 
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Hush, don’t say a word, your eyesight’s overwrought 
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Maybe something really stirred, maybe so or maybe not 
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No one is planting flowers in the prowling time of night 
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But in these short dark hours, even memories can bite 

 
            D                 C       G 
What’s that form there in the dark? 
       D                C       G 
Just a pine tree in the park? 
    D             C    ~ Am 
Oh, let me not be mad, insane 
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Methinks I see thee, Jane 

  

verse 3 
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When I finally think it through, finally master my confusion 
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Naughty shadows bend askew, charging through my grand illusion 
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Who’s there, who goes, who’s going? My involuntary words 
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Was it just the winds soft blowing, or nocturnal flocks of birds? 
                    D                          C 
Was it just the hesitation of a deer before it fled 
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Was it my imagination, or was Jane somewhere ahead? 


            D                  C      G 
A startled “Hey”, a faint “Goodbye” 
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Then away, away she’ll fly 
       D           C     ~ Am 
Words, words, mere words remain 
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Methinks I see thee, Jane 



Instrumental 
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verse 4 
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High above the city streets, perched upon a window sill 
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Above the night-time city beats, sang a lonely whippoorwill 
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I heard it’s melancholy song, I know she heard it too 
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She’d been hidden all along, oh, she saw me and withdrew 
                         D                     C 
Has her minutes, has her ways, but always a survivor 
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Plays a part to make her plays, she knows what she’s alive for 

 
            D                C      G 
To hide and seek or seek and hide 
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Through windows sneak, through locks untried 
     D                        C  ~   Am 
What light shines through yon window pane? 
           D         G      C  D  G   C  D  C 
Methinks I see thee, Jane 



Interlude 
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Woah-oh-oh 
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Woah-oh-oh 
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Woah-oh-oh 
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Woah-oh-oh 


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Like a lady, like a child 
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Always shady, always wild 
            D             C      ~  Am 
So foul and fair a day, deceives my brain 
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Methinks I see 
           D     C 
Methinks I see 
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Methinks I see thee, Jane