When The Lights Came On

INTRO: Am C G Am C G C D   Am 

C G Am C G C D Am

    D            C           
The party wasn't over, when my 
  G               Am      C
friends started leaving
               G               D
Still a lot of things I had to say
N.C. D                   C          
    G            Am       C
If I walked back in that room, would
 it be the way I left it?
        G                 D
Lost my nerve and turned away

And the rains came
        Am                G  D - F
And the skies turned grey


CHORUS:
                     Am
When the lights came on
                G
I could see the picture
            Am                     
It burnt my eyes and it bruised my 
Em
mind
        F                C
Gave me hope to face the future
           G                       
I was not alone when the lights 
  Am - G - Am
came on


INTERLUDE: C G D Am  C G D Am


     D             C              
They crucified the ox and put his 
G              Am    C
carcass to the fire
                G                  
Stood around proclaiming they were 
D   - G - D
free
                  C           
Stripped away his flesh, while 
        G                  Am
giving thanks for all his labours
C              G                 
No-one saw the joke, but him and 
D - G - D
me

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Then the rains came
        Am                G  D - F
And the skies turned grey


CHORUS:
                     Am
When the lights came on
                G
I could see the picture
            Am                     
It burnt my eyes and it bruised my 
Em
mind
        F                C
Gave me hope to face the future
           G                       
I was not alone when the lights 
  Am - G - Am
came on


INTERLUDE: C G D Am  C G D Am
  (Horns)  Dm  G Am C G  D  C G Am C
 G  D

Then the rains came
        Am                G  D - F
And the skies turned grey


CHORUS:
                     Am
When the lights came on
                G
I could see the picture
            Am                     
It burnt my eyes and it bruised my 
Em
mind
        F                C
Gave me hope to face the future
           G                       
I was not alone when the lights 
  Am - G - Am
came on


INTERLUDE: C G D Am  C G D Am


  D                  C            
A wise man built his house upon a 
G             Am
rock beside a river
C                 G              
Cared not for the storms that 
    D     - G - D
lashed around
                    C              
The foolish man was tempted, dipped
     G             Am
 his soul into the water
    C               G             
His body, though at peace, has not
      D
 been found

But the rains came
        Am                G  D - F
And the skies turned grey


CHORUS:
                     Am
When the lights came on
                G
I could see the picture
            Am                     
It burnt my eyes and it bruised my 
Em
mind
        F                C
Gave me hope to face the future
           G                       
I was not alone when the lights 
  Am - G
came on


CHORUS:
                     Am
When the lights came on
                     G
I could see into the future
            Am          Em
It burnt my eyes and it bruised my 
mind
          F                    
I saw the truth that I had been 
    C
concealing
                G                  
We were face to face when the 
       Am - G - Am
lights came on