CITY LIGHTS =========== Artist: You Am I Album: Deliverance Transcribed by Michael Tran Dropped-D Tuning CAPO 3 =============================================================== CHORDS ====== A5 B5 D5 G#5 C#* e|-------------------- B|-------------------- G|----------------2--- D|--5--7--0---4---0--- A|--5--7--0---4---4--- D|--5--7--0---4------- The Motifs ========== e|--------------------------- B|--------------------------- G|--7~-6~-4h6p4-2~-2-1~-1/2-- D|-------------4------------- A|--------------------------- D|--------------------------- -or- (interchangeable) e|--------------------------- B|--------------------------- G|--7~-6~-4h6p4-2~-2-1~------ D|-------------4----------0-- A|------------------------0-- D|----------------------2-0-- Pattern One =========== B5 e|------------------- B|------------------- G|--7~-7/9~-7~-7/9~-- D|------------------- A|------------------- D|------------------- Pattern Two =========== e|---------------------------- B|---------------------------- G|--7~-9~-11~-11-9-7-6~-6/7~-- D|---------------------------- A|---------------------------- D|---------------------------- =============================================================== INTRO ===== MOTIF (x2) VERSE ONE ========= A5 D5 B5 D5 You know the street where I live nestles five miles from town A5 D5 B5 I go walking at night, guided by the crowd G#5 A5 D5 B5 That sits on the buildings, craning from a height C#* Take me out, take me out to see those city lights MOTIF VERSE TWO ========= You can treat me like garbage, reject my staring so graphic That leach your attention on the just pyschopath And there ain't no Lothario on the sly C#* D5 I walk in a dream, with those city lights BRIDGE ONE ========== A5 I know you can see through each line that I use PATTERN ONE So I'll polax the syntax and rhyme (??) A5 But the trams in the neon sway to a torch song (??) B5 But sunset I'm alive LINK ==== MOTIF (x2) VERSE THREE =========== I just need to know somewhere there's drugs and some kissin Romance and rock band and something I'm missing And don't wanna be anywhere but on the edge C#* D5 Of the river with you and those damn city lights BRIDGE TWO ========== A5 Ooh PATTERN ONE A5 Ooh B5 LINK TWO ======== PATTERN TWO VERSE FOUR ========== You know the street where I live nestles five miles from town And it just don't swing unless you're 'round So I walk to the water and dream with your smile Just you and me, just you and me and our city lights OUTRO ===== MOTIF A MOTIF B