Porchlight

G Em Am C

G            Em                Am
Hey when the need becomes too strong or long
    C                   G
And drawn out for me to take
       Em                    Am              C      G
Like a cigarette burn to the fleshy turbines OF my heart
           Em                C                    G
That faded afternoon floats breezily into my memory
                 Em             Am
Cool shafts of light appear and I'm left here
          C            G Em Am C x2
Standing naked on my own

G               Em           Am
Your voice is small on my voice mail system
    C              G
A million miles away
            Em
But if I turned it off
   Am                 C                 G
I would not hear the little things you say
                    Em
"The world must chill"
           Am              C              G
And like a king I ring up old acquaintances
                  Em             Am
It's like the man says "I ain't here on business"
                   D
It's all work anyway
                C
On any other day
               Am                 D
They say the light has got no equal
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             C     G  Em Am C x2
On any other day

G            Em                Am
The date's irrelevant but she was drunk
        C                G
In the heat of the June night
          Em               Am
The faces in the windows - shouts rang out
      C             G
Into dawn's early light
             Em                    Am
The flailing arms and scrambling eggs I fled

   C                 G
On my two shambling legs
          Em               Am
"I gotta go" I said - they both looked dead
              C
On any other day
               D
On any other day
               Am                   D
They say the light has got no equal
               C
On any other day
               D
On any other day
              Am                   D
They say the light has got no equal
    Am        C     G Em Am C x2
On any other day

G           Em
The fire blazed away
      Am              C           G
The kitchen porch was all that D-m ained
             Em               Am
And I'm out here alone - beat up and pissed
   C              G
UN-til this very day
               Em            Am
That old hotel rang back in fuzzy time
           C             G
And I was ravaged to the bone
       Em                      Am
Your voice got smaller 'til I realized

C         D
It was gone
               C
On any other day
                Am              D
They'd say the light has got no equal
              C
On any other day
              D
On any other day
             Am                 D
I swear the light has got no equal
       Am     C   G Em Am C x2
On any other day

I realize
I realize
It was gone