D  Bm  G
D  Bm  G

[Verse 1]
D
Once you eyes they shone like flashlights,
             Bm
Fountains of clarity
                         G
And the most alkaline of batteries, were you and me
D                A          G
Free of failure, flicker or fade
          D
Yeah, but depending where you're from too much daylight
                 Bm
Can seem like an oddity
                      G
And devotion is a commodity, so with you it seems
   D    A        G
It only comes in trade
            D              A          G              A
Oh, but the first time the bill isn't paid, it's too late...

[Chorus]
                 D
So you just live on in the dark
          Bm                 G
You could drive but you just park
         D
You just talk when you could sing
           Bm             G
And now it doesn't mean a thing
          A
You could bite, but you just bark
          G                  A
You could light but you just spark
                   D     Bm  G
You live on in the dark

[Verse 2]
D
Rolling papers, bottles and needles,
              Bm
and people we trusted
                           G
Our eyes just become too adjusted, we'd be busted
   D        A           G
If sightlessness were a crime
         D
So now I guess I should be searching for matches
                Bm
But I don't see what's the use
                          G
Engines run 'till they're out of juice, and I can't even produce
D              A          G
Fuel enough to light your face
             D            A       G        A
And that's a light I will never replace in time

[Chorus]
               D
So I just live on in the dark
        Bm               G
I could drive but I just park
       D
I just talk when you could sing
           Bm             G
And now it doesn't mean a thing
        A
I could bite, but I just bark
        G                A
I could light but I just spark
                 D
I live on in the dark

[Guitar solo]
D  Bm  D  Bm  G  A  G  A  G  A

[Refrain]
       F#m                        G
It's as if we've only ever come together
                          D
just to test each other's mettle
      F#m                    G
Or to justify subsistence or bolster our resistance to the
E
idea that we should struggle
                   A
When we could just settle

[Verse 3]
                D
So you just get numb to every itch
               Bm              Bm7
And there's no feeling in your fingertips
        G
And you can't find the switch
          D              A        G
And we've grown much too tired to grope
         D            A       G           A
Yeah, we lost all our fire to cope a long time ago

[Chorus]
                D
So we just live on in the dark
         Bm                G
We could drive but we just park
        D
We just talk when we could sing
           Bm             G
And now it doesn't mean a thing
         A
We could bite, but we just bark
         G                 A
We could light but we just spark
                  F#m
We live on in the dark