I Reach For The Light Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

solo piano):

  Am G6 F7M Bm7-5 E Am/E Dm/E E7 [arpeggiate]

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

Verse 1

  C I can't begBin to coAunt the timeD7/F♯s I have beFadden bGy GmysG7elf

piano arr. for guitar:

bass:

  C I lie awaBke, my loAnely room D7/F♯tells me thereFadd's nGo Gone eG7lse

Bm7-5 E7

No one else

Chorus

  I reach for the lAmight, it shG6ines F7Mabove my head

Bm7-5 E Am/E Dm/E E

Reveals the bed that you're not in

  I reach for the lAmight, it shG6ines aF7Mcross the room

Bm7-5 E Am/E Dm/E E

And brings to mind what might have been

Verse 2

I tell myself I'm better off no one can hurt me now

I see your crumpled photograph it makes me laugh out loud

Laugh out loud

[repeat chorus]

Bridge

  When I wFish I cEmould forDmget how gG7ood you loCoked B toniAght G

  When you smFiled at Emme and waFlked aDmway with hG7im (oh... oh, no!)

[guitar solo over verse chords]

[repeat chorus; rit. at end]

Coda

  C I reach for the light

Am G6 F7M Bm7-5 E Am/E Dm/E E

(I reach for the light)

I tell myself I'm better off, no one can hurt

me now

(I reach for the light)

I see your crumbled photograph, it makes me

laugh out loud

(I reach for the light)

I lie awake, my lonely room tells me there's

no one else

[continue as above; fade]

-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers