(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