Chords for Bettye LaVette - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

[C] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
[G] I can't light up _ _ [C] no more of your darkness.
_ _ _ _ [F] _
[C] _ All of [F] my pictures [C] _ _ [Dm] [G] seem to fade to black and white.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
Oh, I've grown [G] so tired.
_ _ [F] And [C] time is standing still before me.
It _ _ [F] _
[C] froze up right [F] here [C] on _ [Dm] [G] the ladder of my [C] life.
[G] _ _ _ Mmm, it's much too [C] late [G] to _ _ [C] save myself from falling.
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [C]
I went on and took a chance [C] to _ [Dm] [G] change your way of life.
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _
Oh, but you must have misread, _ _ misread [F] me when [C] I bit you.
_ _ _ _ _ [F]
Cause you closed the door and _ _ [C] left me here _ [G] blinded by the [F] light.
_ [C] _
_ Don't let the sun go down on me.
[Am] _
Although I search [D] myself, it's always somebody else I [C] see.
If you'd just [F] allow a fragment [G] of your life [C]
to wander free.
_ _ Cause I'm telling you, [F] they're losing everything.
It's like the sun [C] going [C] down on me.
I _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
[G] _ _ [C] can't seem to [G] find a _ _
[F] _ [C] _ romantic line. _ _ _
[F] But if you see me once, _ _ [Dm] you'll see [G] exactly the way I feel.
[C] _ [G] _ _ _
Oh, but don't discard [G] me.
_ _ [F] Just cause you think [C] I might mean you harm.
_ _ _ _ [F] _
You see these cuts I've got, _ _ _ [C]
they need a whole [G] lot of love to [Dm] heal.
[C] _
Please, _ don't let the sun go down on me.
_ [Am] _
Although I search myself, [D] it's always somebody else I [C] see.
If you'd just [F] allow yourself [G] a [C] small bit of time to wander free.
_ _ _ Lord, cause I'm [F] telling you, they're losing everything.
[Cm] [F] It's like the sun [C] going down on me.
_ [Bb] [C] I don't want to lose [F] everything.
It's like the sun [C] going down on [F] me.
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