(The song is not 4/4 but 3/4, by the way). Intro: [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] Verse: Take what you need while there's time [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] The city will be earth in a short while [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] If I'm not mistaken it's been in flames [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] You and I will escape to the seaside There is a storm in the distance The wind breathing warning of its imminence There is a lighthouse five hundred yards down You and I will be safe there [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] passage:There is a girl who haunts that lighthouse [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] She saved me, I was swimming [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] So young I almost drowned [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] Under the water she sang a story [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] Of losing her lover F# F# F# F# (last F# 2 quarters' length instead of 3) She calls a warning Solo: (Verse chords) E --2----5-2-0-0-2----------2----5-2-0-0----------7-5-2-2-5--7-5-10--| B 3-----------------------3--------------3--2------------------------| G -------------------------------------------------------------------| D -------------------------------------------------------------------| A -------------------------------------------------------------------| E -------------------------------------------------------------------| E 9----10-9-7-9-7-5-10-| B ---------------------| G ---------------------| D ---------------------| A ---------------------| E ---------------------| Verse: Love, you are foolish, you're tired Your sleeplessness makes you a liar The city is burning, the ocean is turning Our only chance is the lighthouse Passage:Her lover was a sailor, she went and she waited there The door locked from the outside Lover never arrived so she sings there, soft as a siren Luring the ships off their course, how alarming [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] We went in, we climbed up and looked out [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] The door locked from the outside F# F# [last chord is 2 quarters instead of 3] Three ghosts in a lighthouse