play me a minor chord, i have a sad song in my heart
and there is not a thing that you can do to ease the tide
there are no notes that match the dissonance of sorrow
the beauty of the darkness falling, the sad little tune

play me a minor chord, follow it with thirds and then a 7th
by the time the dawn arrives, we’ll be through me and you
me to go my own way with this sad new song and you, to where you go
down to the dark, lonely depths that i cannot, will not go

i have a sad song in my heart
i have bought you sunshine
tattooed wisdom on my shoulders
til i’ve been going backwards
but we’ll be through, me and you

enjoy these final notes, this last reprise another chorus line
i’ll write you one last soaring melody with notes of gray
shading blue along the wake, stay up all night to finish off the ache
wine bottle emptied alongside the minor chords we’ll write tonight

we’re so much better in the melancholy a sad retreat wasn’t fooling anybody
for i am magnet to the foolhardy, fools and i am the biggest fool of all
there is a foolish colour to all these minor chords and fooling words
nobody gets fooled anymore, the melody of my love is a breaking curse

could i be sent, sent out into the night, by the dawn a parcel of light

play me a minor chord, i have a sad song in my heart
and there is not a thing that you can do to ease the tide
there are no notes that match the dissonance of sorrow
the beauty of the darkness falling, the sad little tune