Misc Musicals – Octet - Glow (Guitar)

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[Verse 1] Gm
             Gm Gm7/D
we lie in bed

   Cm7         Cm7/G
my husband and i

Gm7/Bb            Gm7
breathing side by side

       Dm7/A D7
in the dark

            Gm
he breathes out

    F7/A      Bb
and i breathe in

  Ab/C  Bb7/D Eb Eb/Bb
i breathe him in

    F7/C              F7
whatever he’s putting out

      Bb   Bb/F D7/F# D7/A D7
i breathe in
[Verse 2]
          Gm
we lie in bed

   Cm7          Cm7/G
he leans on his side

Gm7/Bb        Gm7
offers me his back

          Dm7/A  D7
broad and strange

        Gm            F7/A        Bb
and his thumb scrolls through his phone

          Ab/C   Bb7/D Eb   Eb/Bb
i feel it ripple in my bones

    F7/C          F7
his gestures echo through me

       Bb       Bb/F
like a soulquake

               D7/F# Cm6 D7
and i hear him sigh

        Cm   Gm/Bb
and the moon is

F/A       F
gone (the moon is-)

    Cm   Gm/Bb         F/A  D7
the only light in this song
[Chorus]
     Bb    Dm7  Gm
is a stale pale glow

Gm/D            A7b5  D7/A
lighting up the sheets

  Bb    Dm7  Gm
a stale pale glow

       Gm/D             A7b5  Cm6 D7/A
from a screen of sickly sweets
[Verse 3]
               Gm  Gm7/D
we don’t sleep well

   Cm7         Cm7/G
my husband and i

       Gm7/Bb            Gm7
our circadian rhythms corrupted

       F/A         D7        Gm
by the sallow blue glow of a screen

            F7/A          Bb
sucking our souls and melatonin

          Ab/C   Bb7/D     Eb    Eb/Bb
all of my dreams have been stolen

          F7/C           F7           Bb        Bb/F
there’s a glass of dusty water on his nightstand

       D7          D7/A     Gm  Gm/D
it has stood there for five days

          Cm7       Cm7/G
he hasn’t touched it

                Gm/Bb      Gm
he doesn’t take care of himself

      F/A      D7
he is paralyzed
[Chorus]
     Bb    Dm7  Gm
by a stale pale glow

Gm/D            A7b5  D7/A
lighting up the sheets

  Bb    Dm7  Gm
a stale pale glow

Gm/D           D7/A      D7/C D7
flattening our heartbeats
[Bridge]
Cm    Gm/Bb         A7b5
god i wish he would scream

  Ebmaj7/G      Bb/F       Ab/Eb  Eb/G
i wish he would break down on the bed

Abdim7          Cm/G
i wish we would fight

Abdim7      Cm/G
tear at our hair

        Abdim7   Cm/G
let the bits and bytes

   Bb/F         Ab/Eb
dissolve in the night

                Eb
it would be all right

C7/E             Fm
what if you just missed something?

Ab7/C                     Db
what if you let something go?

             Ab
just for the night

           F7b9/A Bbm
would that be all right?

     G7b9/B            Cm
oh i swear it’d be the same

         Fm                Bbm
they are all just motes of dust

       C7#9/E       Fm  C7
we are all motes of dust

Gb/Db         Gb7/Db      Fm/C
nothing is as vital as it seems

Gb7
tragedies, catastrophes

Fm                   Fm/Eb        Bb7
nightmares, horrors, heartbreaks, extremes

Dbm6                Ab/C
all these suffering souls

     C7/E          Fm
that you cannot control

    F7              F7/A
and you invite them all

       Bb   Bdim7
in our bed?

F/C          A7/C#   Dm
well what if i’m not big enough

   F/C     A7/C#   Dm
to take in so much pain?

   F/Eb        Bb
it beats on my brain

           Bbm6/Db
i am going insane

      F/C          A7/C# Dm          F/C
right here, in this bed, next to you

      Bb                       Bbm6
you’d see it if you weren’t so lost
[Chorus]
       Bb    Dm7  Gm
in the stale pale glow

    Bb    Dm7  Gm
the stale pale glow

Bb Dm7 Gm
oo oo  oo
[Outro]
        F/A            Ebsus2/G
it’d be fun if we were kids

     Bb/F
with flashlights

D7
telling each other our secrets

       Gm F  Eb
in our linen cave

   Gm    Bbmaj9        Dm D11
oh babe, where did you go?

   Gm    Bbmaj9        Dm D11
oh babe, where did you go?

   Gm    Bbmaj9        Dm D11
oh babe, where did you go?

Gm    Bbmaj9  Dm D11
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