Chords for Night Light - the Mountain Goats

_ _ _ [B] Pull my mask so tight, _ _ [Em] till it pinches my skin.
_ _ _ [G] _ Nerves strong [Bm] so high, _ _ [G] I am a mandolin.
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_ _ _ [B] Jenny calls from Montana, _ _ [G] _ she's only passing through. _
_ _ [D] Probably never see her again in this life I guess.
[A] _ Not sure what I'm gonna do, _ [G] hug a night light in. _ _
_ [D] [B] Leave the porch light on, _ _
[Bm] because [G] the small dark corners _ _
[D] have [Bm] designs on me. _ _
Lives [D] like an outlaw, [A] _ _ _
clutching [G] gold coins in his claw. _ _ _
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_ [Bm] _ Room full of ambitious young policemen, _ _ [E] everybody trying to make his mark. _
I was [G] a red dot, blinking on [Bm] a screen up overhead.
_ [G] _ And then the room went [A] dark, _ _ [Bm] dream of maybe waking up someday. _
_ _ [G] Wanting you less than I do. _
_ _ [D] _ _ This is a dream though, _ _ [A] it's never gonna come true.
[G] Hug a night light in. _ _ _
[D] Leave the [B] porch light on, _ _ _ [G] because the small dark corners _ _
are establishing [Bm] their colony.
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[Bm] Lives [B] like an [A] outlaw, _ _ _ clutching gold [G] coins in his claw. _ _ _
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_ [B] _ [Bm] Can't ever set aside the sweetness _ [E] of the days before the crews put up the boarding. _
_ _ [G] _ _ Fields [Bm] full of wet rain, _ [G] cling tight to their memory [A] forever. _
_ _ [Bm] Think about Montana when I close my eyes.
[G] _ Possibly Jenny's headed east, _
_ _ [D] count a couple of stray hopes out loud.
_ _ [A] May their numbers one day be [D] increased.
_ [G] Hug a night light in. _
_ [D] Leave the [Bm] porch light on, _ _ _ [G] because the small dark corners _
breathe like [Bm] heavy animals, _ _ _ lives [A] like an outlaw, _ _ _ clutching [G] gold coins in his claw. _ _
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