Fun Home - Telephone Wire

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[Intro]
A
[Verse]
D
Telephone wire
A
Run and run
D
Telephone wire
A
Sundown on the creek
E
Partly frozen, partly flowing
E
Must be windy, trees are bending
E
Junction 50 field needs mowing
E
Feels like the car is floating
[Chorus]
D
Say something!
A Asus2 A
Talk to him!
D
Say something!
A Asus2 A
Anything!
D A
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
D
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
Dsus2
Like, you could say
F#m
"So, how does it feel to know that you and I are both—"
[dialogue]
N.C.
"Hey"
N.C.
"Yeah?"
N.C.
"Where do you want to go?"
N.C.
"Oh, I don't know"
[Bridge]
G C
"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
G B
A seedy club for folks like… you know
C
Could be fun"
G B
"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
A
"Yeah, right"
[Verse]
D
Telephone wire
A
Long black line
D
Telephone wire
A
Finely threaded sky
E7
There's the pond where I went wading
E7
There's a sign for Sugar Valley
E7
On the mountain, light is fading
E7
I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
D
Say something!
A Asus2 A
Talk to him!
D
Say something!
A Asus2 A
Anything!
D A
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
D
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
Dsus2
Doesn't matter what you say
F#m
Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
G
"There was a boy in college
C
My first year there
C
Norris Jones
G B
He had black, wavy hair
C
Norris Jones
G B7
Where is he now?
G
Fourteen years old
C
In Swanson's barn
C
It was cold
G
Lots of boys messed around, you know
B C
For them, it was a game they outgrew
B7 C
But I always knew"
C
"Dad, me too!
G
Since, like, five, I guess
G
I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
C
I felt absurd in a dress
Am
I really tried to deny my feelings for girls
G
But I was like you, Dad me too"
N.C.
"Norris Jones…"
N.C.
"Dad?"
N.C.
"Norris Jones…"
N.C.
"Dad?"
N.C.
"Hey, did I mention that new project I've taken on? You've seen it, Al, that old house out on Route 150?
It's been standing empty forty, fifty years at least…"
A
[Verse]
D
Telephone wire
A
Stop! Too fast!
D
Telephone wire
A
Make this not the past
D
This car ride
F
This is where it has to happen!
F
There must be some other chances
F
There's a moment I'm forgetting
F
Where you tell me you see me
[Chorus]
Eb
Say something!
Bb
Talk to me!
Eb
Say something!
Bb
Anything!
Eb Bb
At the light
Eb Bb
At the light
F
This can't be our last—
[Outro]
A
N.C.
"Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?"
D A
Telephone wire
D A
That was our last night

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[Intro]
A
[Verse]
[Chorus]
[dialogue]
N.C.
"Hey"
N.C.
"Yeah?"
N.C.
"Where do you want to go?"
N.C.
"Oh, I don't know"
[Bridge]
[Verse]
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
N.C.
"Norris Jones…"
N.C.
"Dad?"
N.C.
"Norris Jones…"
N.C.
"Dad?"
N.C.
"Hey, did I mention that new project I've taken on? You've seen it, Al, that old house out on Route 150?
It's been standing empty forty, fifty years at least…"
A
[Verse]
[Chorus]
[Outro]

Fun Home - Telephone Wire Chords by Misc Musicals

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