Nightswimming - REM
Tran scripted on a Key C diatonic.
 
4d   4d  4b  4b 5d    5b 4b 4d 4b
Nightswimming de-serves a  quiet night.

3b 4b 4b 4b   4b 4d  4d  4b    5d 5b  4b    4d 4b
The photo-graph on the dashboard, ta-ken years a--go,

4b     4b 4b   4b 3b   4b 4d  5d  5b    4b
Turned a--round backwards so the windshield shows.

5d 5b 4d 4b    4b    3b 4b   4d 5d 5b  4b 4d 4b
E--ve-ry streetlight re-veals the picture in re-verse.

5d     5b  4b 4d  4d 4b
Still, it's so much clearer.

4b 4b 4b 3b 4b    4b 4d 5d 5b    4b
I  forgot my shirt at the wa-ter's edge.

3b 4b   4b 4b 4d 4b
The moon is low to-night.


4d   4d  4b  4b 5d    5b 4b 4d 4b
Nightswimming de-serves a  quiet night.

3b 4b 4b   4b  4d    5d 5b 4b 4d 4b
I'm not sure all these people un-derstand.

3b   4b  4b  4b   4d 4b
It's not like years a--go,

3b 4b   4b 4b 4d  4b
The fear of getting caught,

4d 5d  5b  4b  4d 4d 4b
Of recklessness and wa-ter.

4b   5d 5b 4b 4d 4d 4b
They cannot see me na-ked.

3b   4b     4b   4b 4d 4b
These things, they go a--way,

3b 5d    5b 4b 4d 4b
Re-placed by e--veryday.


4d   4d  4b    4b 5d 5b 4b   4d  4b
Nightswimming, re-membe-ring that night.

3b 4b 4b   4b 4d  4b
September's coming soon.

4b 5d 5b  4b 4d 4b
I'm pi-ning for the moon.

4b 5d   5b 4b   4d   4b
And what if there were two

4b   3d 5d   5b 4d 4b
Side by side in or-bit

3b 5d    5b  4b 4d   4b
A--round the fairest sun?

3b   4b      4b    3b 5d 5b 4b
That bright, tight forev-er drum

3b   5d 5b 4b    4d  4d 4b
Could not describe nightswimming.


4b   4b 4b     4d 4d  4b
You, i thought i  knew you.

5d 5b 4b 4d 4b
You i  cannot judge.

4b   4b 4b     4d 4d   4b
You, i thought you knew me,

4b   4d  5d  5b 4b 4d 4b 4b 4d 5d  5b 4b
This one laughing quiet-ly underneath my breath.

4d   4d  4b
Nightswimming.


3b 4b 4b 4b   4d 4b
The photo-graph re-flects,

4b 4d 5d   5b   4b 4d 4d 4b
Every streetlight a  re-minder.

4d   4d  4b  4b 5d    5b 4d 4b 4b
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night,

3b 4b    4b 4b 4d 4b
deserves a quiet night