Northern Lights-southern Cross

C
Boards on the window
E7
Mail by the door
A7 d7
What would anybody leave so quickly for?
F
Ophelia
G7 c a7 d7 g7
Where have you gone?


The old neighborhood just ain't the same
Nobody knows just what became of
Ophelia
Tell me, what went wrong

F c
Was it somethin' that somebody said?
G7 c
Mama, i know we broke the rules
F c
Was somebody up against the law?
G7 g7+5
Honey, you know i'd die for you

C
Ashes of laughter
E7
The ghost is clear
A7 d7
Why do the best things always disappear
F
Like ophelia
G7 c a7 d7 g7
Please darken my door

Was it somethin' that somebody said?
Honey, you know we broke the rules
Wu somebody up against the law?
Honey, you know i'd die for you

They got your number
Scared and runnin'
But i'm still waitin' for the second comin'
Of ophelia
Come back home

G
Jupiter hollow
C g
Northern lights
C g/d g
Cast a glow through the window late last night
Gsus4 g c g
I went to follow through the sycamore
C c/d
When i found myself in a place
G
I'd never been before
C g/b
There was a unicorn and a dragon queen
D g
Beneath the burgundy sky
C g/b
I saw an old soldier singin' a love song
C/d
He had the distance in his eye

G
Livin' in another world
C c/d g
Livin' in another time
C g
Like a comet i was hurled
C c/d g
Oh, livin' in another world

Jupiter hollow
So far, so near
Like a time machine take you out to a different year
Phoebus apollo played on his lyre
While we danced to the music of the sphere
And as the moon went down and the sun came up
With the mercury risin' too
'twas then the prophet said the secret of the dead
I'll whisper it to you

Livin' in another world
Livin' in another time
Like a comet i was hurled
Oh, livin' in another world

Jupiter hollow
In the midnight sun
Well, no man of dreams was ever more outdone
Where the swallows circle over head
And muses gather by the river of the tears we shed
Just like a pioneer in the new frontier
I don't know where to begin
Because nobody cares when a man goes mad
And tries to free the ghost within

Livin' in another world
Livin' in another time
Like a comet i was hurled
Oh, livin' in another world

A a7 d a
High and lonesome out on times square
A7 d a
Haven't got a dime, ain't got a prayer
A7 d a
Deliver us, lord, from this golden calf
A7 d a
People only want what they cannot have

D#o7
Forbidden fruit
D e a d
That's the fruit that you'd better not taste
A d#o7
Forbidden fruit
D e a d
You've got one life that you'd better not waste

A a7 d a
How can i walk with this ball and chain?
A7 d a
How can i land in this hurricane?
A7 d a
Or is this part of man's evolution
A7 d a
To be torn between truth and illusion?
D#o7
Forbidden fruit
D e a d
That's the route that you'd better not take
A d#o7
Forbidden fruit
D e a
Just watch out for the sign of the snake


Little brother got caught in the web
He ran off to join the living dead
Been through the mill, seen the cross on the hill
He sold his soul just for a thrill
Forbidden fruit
In hot pursuit out on a limb
Forbidden fruit
Your whole world is closing in

You got the picture but missed the drift
About me workin' the graveyard shift
I never went in for no burglary
But there's a stranger inside of me
Forbidden fruit
Don't you shoot the whole works away
Forbidden fruit
It's too high of a price to pay

How can you hear with a bad connection?
You can't see when there's no reception
Keep your distance, don't fool with taboo
'cause it'll overtake and undertake you
Forbidden fruit
That's the fruit that you'd better not taste
Forbidden fruit
You've got one life that you'd better not waste

F#m
Catch a taxi to the fountainhead
C#sus4/g#
Blinking neon penny arcade
A
A young caruso on the fire escape
Bm bm/c# d d/e
Painted face ladies on parade
F#m
The newsboy on the corner
C#sus4/g#
Singing out headlines
A
And a fiddler selling pencils
Bm bm/c# d
The sign reads: help the blind


F#m f#m/e dmaj7
Comin' up the lane callin'
Bm7 c#m7 f#m
Workin' while the rain's fallin'
Dmaj7 c# a/e d#m7-5
Ragman, your song of the street
Dmaj7 e7sus4
Keeps haunting my memory
F#m f#m/e dmaj7
Music in the air
Bm7 c#m7 f#m
I hear it ev'rywhere
Dmaj7 c# a/e d#m7-5
Rags, bones and old city songs
Dmaj7 e7sus4 a
Hear them, how they talk to me

Trolley car rings out the morning
Whistle blows at noon
A cat fight breaks open the night
While watch dogs bay at the moon
A preacher on an orange crate
With a salvation army band
And clicking along the cobbled stones
That's the sound of the ice-cream man

Comin' up the lane callin'
Workin' while the rain's fallin'
Ragman, your song of the street
Keeps haunting my memory
Music in the air
I hear it ev'rywhere
Rags, bones and old city songs
Hear them, how they talk to me

The organ grinder and his monkey
Still walkin' the same old beat
The shoe-shine boy slappin' leather
He puts the rhythm in your feet
Strollin' by the churchyard
List'nin' to the sunday choir
With voices rising to the heavens
Like sirens screaming to a fire

Comin' up to the lane callin'
Workin' while the rain's fallin'
Ragman, your song of the street
Keeps haunting my memory
Music in the air
I hear it ev'rywhere
Rags, bones and old city songs
Play them one more time for me

Guitar (capo 3rd fret)

C g/b
It makes no diff'rence where i turn
Em g/d am7
I can't get over you and the flame still burns
C g/b
It makes no diff'rence, night or day
Em g/d am7
The shadow never seems to fade away

Am7/d g em7 c d g c
And the sun don't shine anymore
G em7 c d g c g
And the rains fall down on my door


G
Now there's no love
Dm
As true as the love
C a7
That dies untold
G em7 c d g c g
But the clouds never hung so low before


It makes no diff'rence how far i go
Like a scar the hurt will always show
It makes no diff'rence who i meet
They're just a face in the crowd
On a dead-end street
And the sun don't shine anymore
And the rains fall down on my door

These old love letters
Well, i just can't keep
'cause like the gambler says
Read 'em and weep
And the dawn don't rescue me no more

D bm
Without your love i'm nothing at all
C cm
Like an empty hall it's a lonely fall
D bm
Since you've gone it's a losing battle
C
Stampeding cattle
Am d
They rattle the walls

And the sun don't shine anymore
And the rains fall down on my door

Well, i love you so much
It's all i can do
Just to keep myself from telling you
That i never felt so alone before