Countermoon Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

C7 A9 A13

E7 G9 A7 D7

D7On a night like this

You look up at your lover

It's like you're in some old cartoon

Then you detect

The scent of faded roses

Up in the sky

There's that cruel countermoon

G9 Could that be murder you see in her eyes

Bm7 You try a long and desperate Bm7/F♯kiss F G♯

G7 You can't esG9cape it

 That beam is sure to A7find you

 On a D7night like this D6 D

 The story is C/Ftold

 How the G7women get restless

 And the men grow D7cold

 Gotham shudders D6 D

 There's a chill in the C/Fair

 There's a G7countermoon

 Lovers all D7beware

Hand in hand

You walk along the river

You stop to clutch and caress

A countermoonbeam

Comes sweeping off the water

She says 'You're not my Jackie.

My Jackie was the best.'

G9 Spitewaves are threatening

The seaside hotels

 It's Bm7nasty weather for JBm7/F♯uly F G♯

G7 Last night you loved her

 TonG9ight you wonder A7why

 On a D7night like this D6 D

 The story is C/Ftold

 How the G7women get restless

 And the G9men grow D7cold

 Gotham shudders D6 D

 There's a chill in the C/Fair

 There's a G7countermoon

 Lovers G9all beD7ware

C9 F♯7

|C♯m7-5 |F♯7sus4 |A11 | |

G7 At every pay phone

 There's G9somebody cryin'

Bm7 All the streets are slick with Bm7/F♯tears F G♯

 When you G7see that blue ray

F13 F13-5

There's a heartquake on the way

 On a E7night like this E6 E

 The story is D/Gtold

 How the A7women get restless

 And the A9men grow cE7old

 Gotham shudders E6 E

 There's a chill in the D/Gair

 There's a A7countermoon

 Lovers A9all D11

 On a E7night like tE6his E

 The story is D/Gtold

 How the A7women get restless

 And the A9men grow E7cold

 Gotham shudders E6 E

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 There's a chill in the D/Gair

 There's a A7countermoon

 Lovers A9all beE7ware

D7

  E7 D/G A7 all be E7ware

D7

  E7 D/G A7 all bewE7are

repeat and fade