The Day The Light Went Out Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][F][G][Am]

[Verse 1]
[D]When they went to bed that night,
no [G]one would have believed
[D]That in the morning light
would not be [F]there[G][Am]
The [D]dark hung heavy on the air
like [G]the grip of a jealous man
No place [D]was there known to have
been [F]spared[G][Am]
Then [G]panic took control of minds
as [Am]fear hit everyone
[Bb]The day the light [G]went [Cm]out
[Baug]of the d[Bb]aytime sky[Am][D]

[Verse 2]
Artificial [D]light could hardly
[G]penetrate the gloom
Nothing out [D]of reach could
be ob[F]served[G][Am]
[D]Looting, pillage, murder,
rape be[G]came the rule of that day
Who [D]hit him no one knew,
or whom he [F]hit[G][Am]
[G]Cars were caught in pileups and
the [Am]planes could never land
The [Bb]day the light [G]went o[Cm]ut o[Baug]f
[Bb]the daytime [Adim]sky
[D][C][D]

[Verse 3]
[Gm]
"Now I can [Bb]rest [Gm]here after my
[Bb]journey[Gm][Am][C]
[Gm]Now I can [Bb]feed here [Gm]before I con
[Bb]tinue."
[Gm][Am][C][Am]

[Verse 4]
[D]
[Dsus4]Some were[D] there who's heads were clear who sough[G]t,
tried to find
The [D]nature of this deadly foe,
[F]the [G]dark[Am]
It [D]seemed the sun was still somewhere,
though [G]hidden from their sight
By [D]something, though amorphous,
yet [F]alive[G][Am]
[G]And so they looked for ways to rid
them[Am]selves of the parasite
The [Bb]day the light [G]went o[Cm]ut of
[Baug]the day time[Eb] sky[Bb][Adim][D]

[Verse 5]
[C]"Now [D]I c[Gm]an[Dm]
[Bb]rest [Gm]here after my
[Dm]jour[Bb]ney[Am][Bb][Gm][Am][C][Gm]
Now I can [Bb]feed [Gm]here before I con
[Bb]tinue."
[Gm][Am][C][Am]

[Verse 6]
[D]
[Dsus4]They tried in [D]many fruitless
ways [G]to see the noonday sun
By [D]blasting with their missiles
through [F]the dark[G][Am]
[D]But soon a kind of sleepy
state came [G]over everyone
Till [D]nothing seemed to stir
or even [F]breathe[G]
[Am]And when the d[G]arkness chose to disappear,
not [Am]many had survived
[Bb]Then came a shadow - another
[G]had arr[Cm]ived[Baug]
[Bb]And [Adim]again th[D]e light[Bb] went[G]
[Cm]out [Baug]of the dayti[Bb]me sky

[Outro 1]
[D][F][G][Am][D]