Chords for YOU CAN CLOSE YOUR EYES by Sting

_ _ _ _ Ladies and gentlemen, Sting. _ _ _ _ _ _
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I'm sorry James, but I'm moved to say something. _ _
_ So it's _ _ _ _ 1971, I'm 19 years old,
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I'm a budding songwriter, or at least I think I am,
singer-songwriter,
_ _ and I have [F#] a ticket for James Taylor and his band
at Newcastle City Hall in the north of England,
and I want to see what all the fuss is about.
_ [E] _ _ So the lights go down and I'm in my seat,
and the lights come up,
and onto the stage walks an intolerably handsome man.
[C] _ _ Impossibly tall, he's charming, he's a bane, witty,
_ and then he starts to play the guitar,
and within four bars I realise he's a virtuoso of the guitar,
and he starts to sing _ in this wonderful, [B] rich, soulful baritone,
_ these songs that are such tender melancholy
that I think to myself, I'd better change my career,
_ _ and I'll just become a bass player in a punk band.
[E] So _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ James has _
_ _ [E] continued to challenge me, _ _
and inspire me,
and he's become my dear, dear friend,
and that friendship is something I cherish more than a lot, I think.
So James, I'm going to attempt to sing one of your songs tonight. _ _ _
If I make any mistakes, it's not because I haven't practised, I have,
it's just because I'm nervous to play in front of you, so _ here we go.
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_ Well the sun is surely [A] _ [C#m] sinking [B] down,
_ _ and the moon is slowly [E] _ [A] rising,
_ [F#] _ [B] _
[E] and this whole world must still be spinning [B] round,
_ _ _ and [C#m] I [E] still love you,
_ _ _ so [C#m]
close your [B] eyes,
[Bm] you can close [A] your eyes, it's [F#] alright, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] I don't know no [B] rough [F#] songs,
and I can't sing [A] blues [C#m] anymore,
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
[F#] but I [G#] can sing [A] this song, _ _ _
_ _ [E] [F#] you [C#m] can sing [A] this [B] song [C#m] when _ I'm gone, _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ [C#m] _ [A] _ _
[B] it [E] won't be [C#m] long before another [B] day,
_ _ _ we're [C#m] going to [B] have a good [A] time,
_ _ [F#] _ _ [E]
no one's going [A] to [E] take that time away, _
[B] _ _ you [F#] can stay as [B] long as [F#m] you like,
_ so close [C#m] your eyes,
[Bm] you can close [A] your eyes, it's [C#] alright,
[C#m] _ _ _ _ I _
_ _ _ [F#] don't know [B] no rough songs,
[F#] and I can't sing blues [C#m] anymore, _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
but I [G#] can sing [A] this song, _
[B] _ you can sing [A] this [C#m] song when [F#] I'm _ _ [C#m] gone, _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ [B] _
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_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [G#] _ [B] _ _
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_ [N] Thank you, thank you James. _ _
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