Night Windows

Verse 1 

G           Em             C 
In the stick-count for the song of knowing you're gone 
G        Em              C 
Glancing up at where you lived when you lived here 
G         Em        C 
I see you suddenly alive and nearly smiling 
G        Em                 C 
Stop and hold my breath and watch the way you used to be 
 

D                  C               Em         G         C 
The full moon makes our faces shine like over-ironed polyester 
D              C                  
Then disappears behind the clouds 
Em            G               C            G 
And leaves me under empty rows of night windows 


Verse 2 

G         Em                 C 
We could walk to where these streets get pulled together 
G          Em               C 
A blinking line with gravel shoulders squared towards an end 
G         Em      C 
Where the radio resounds from doppling traffic 
G         Em                C 
Where the power lines steal esses from the hourly news 


Chorus 

D           C              Em             G               C 
De-pluralize our casualties and drown the generals out in static 
D                  C 
We'd turn and watch our city sprawl 
Em          G                  C            G 
And send us signals in the glow of night windows 


Outro 

G          D  Bm      C  
But you're not coming home again 
G     D    Bm    C 
And I won't ever get to say 
   G                 D               Bm                    C 
"Remember how... I'm sorry that... I miss the way... Could we..." 


End on  G