Fun Home – Telephone Wire chords

[Intro]
A

[Verse]
DTelephone wire
    ARun and run
DTelephone wire
    ASundown on the creek
EPartly frozen, partly flowing
EMust be windy, trees are bending
EJunction 50 field needs mowing
EFeels like the car is floating

[Chorus]
DSay something!
 A Asus2 ATalk to him!
DSay something!
A Asus2 AAnything!
D                                                AAt the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
DAt the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
   Dsus2Like, you could say
     F#m"So, how does it feel to know that you and I are both—"

[dialogue]
N.C."Hey"
N.C."Yeah?"
N.C."Where do you want to go?"
N.C."Oh, I don't know"

[Bridge]
 G                                  C"I know a bar that's kind of hidden away
                 G                BA seedy club for folks like… you know
 CCould be fun"
     G                   B"But Dad, I'm not twenty-one"
             A"Yeah, right"

[Verse]
 DTelephone wire
     ALong black line
 DTelephone wire
   AFinely threaded sky
 E7There's the pond where I went wading
 E7There's a sign for Sugar Valley
 E7On the mountain, light is fading
 E7I go back to school tomorrow!

[Chorus]
 DSay something!
 A Asus2 ATalk to him!
 DSay something!
A Asus2 AAnything!
D                                                 AAt the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
DAt the light, at the light, at the light, at the light
            Dsus2Doesn't matter what you say
 F#mJust make the fear in his eyes go away

[Bridge]
             G"There was a boy in college
               CMy first year there
 CNorris Jones
       G                BHe had black, wavy hair
 CNorris Jones
  G         B7Where is he now?
               GFourteen years old
             CIn Swanson's barn
 CIt was cold
GLots of boys messed around, you know
                   B             CFor them, it was a game they outgrew
    B7        CBut I always knew"
 C"Dad, me too!
 GSince, like, five, I guess
    GI preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants
          CI felt absurd in a dress
                    AmI really tried to deny my feelings for girls
                    GBut I was like you, Dad me too"

N.C."Norris Jones…"
N.C."Dad?"
N.C."Norris Jones…"
N.C."Dad?"
N.C."Hey, did I mention that new project I've taken on? You've seen it, Al, that old house out on Route 150?
It's been standing empty forty, fifty years at least…"

A

[Verse]
 DTelephone wire
  AStop! Too fast!
 DTelephone wire
     AMake this not the past
          DThis car ride
  FThis is where it has to happen!
 FThere must be some other chances
 FThere's a moment I'm forgetting
 FWhere you tell me you see me

[Chorus]
 EbSay something!
     BbTalk to me!
 EbSay something!
BbAnything!
Eb          BbAt the light
Eb          BbAt the light
  FThis can't be our last—

[Outro]
 N.C.                                                               A"Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?"
 D             ATelephone wire
D                  AThat was our last night