Tab by Chris Campbell, 2001
Capo 2nd fret. Chord names are inexact and are relative to capo
Chords used in the song:
G C D G1
C1 D2
-3---0---2-----3-----0----0---
-0---1---3-----0---1p0----3---
-0---0---2-----0-----0----0---
-0---2---0-----0-----2----4---
-2---3-------0h2-----3----5---
-3---3---------3-----3----5---
Playing Notes: In many places in this song (as in after the first line of the verse), the C1 is played. Play the C chord and pull the index finger off of the b string at fret #1 repeatedly as to match the record. It is hard to explain, but just listen for when the pull offs occur.
Intro: G G1 C C1 (x2)
G G1
C
G G1 C1
You turn out the light and the dark sucks on the embers of the
fire
G G1
C
G
C1
My heart smoulders in the night and these tumbling boulders
of desire
G D C
G D C
G
Come rolling off the shadows of me, rolling off the shadows
of me
D C
C1 C1 G1
C1 (x2)
Rolling off the shadows of me..........mmmmm
G G1
C
You say I thought time was meant to take away the hurtin'
G
C1
as your lonely silhouette closes the curtain
G
C1
back on the road destination uncertain
G
C1
so lets get in this car and drive
G G1
C
and this feeling I feel so strong
G
C1
so powerful it can't be wrong
G
C1
now the whole frosted night is just a song
G D C
a sooooong for you
G D C
soooong for you
G D C
C1
a sooooong for you
G C G C G C G C
G
C C1
And the moon is splashed right over the street
G
C C1
like my tears on your thighs so pale
G
C C1
its just you and me in the sheets
G
C C1
and the whole wide world is just a jail
G D C
G
when you're away from me,
D C
G
you're away from me
D C
C1
you're away from me
G C G C
and it's rollin over
C
G
here come the night
C
G C
G
Turn out the light and the dark sucks on the embers of the fire,
G
C
G
my heart smoulders in the night tumbling boulders of desire
C G
C G
rolling, rolling... rolling rolling
C
G
roooooooling rolling rolling rolling roooooling rolling righ
rolling
G D C
rollin
G D C
rollin
G D C
C C1 C D2
rollin out the shadows of me
G
You Turn out the light