Keep Your Lights On chorus 1: D G Keep your lights on darlin' D Keep your curtains drawn D Keep your lights on G Keep a pot of coffee on G It's been a long and rainy winter G A Bmin A G/G# And I know I've been gone far too long G Keep your lights on Gmin D E Keep your lights on E G A D Keep your lights on 'till I get home verse 1: G E The day that it started A F# So down and disheartened B A E B A Tears seemed to cut just like a knife . . . just like a knife G E A And hearing the call of the highway F# Bmin I had to find my way A G To fill out my life chorus 2: bridge: But I told you that day I'd be coming back this way And to leave me a sign that your heart was still mine Too proud to say it, you wrote it all down Sayin' read it whenever you're feeling alone . . . and come back home verse 2: My boots scuffed with gravel I start to unravel My thoughts start to travel back home . . . travel back home This note that I keep in my wallet I guess you could call it A prayer or a poem alternate chorus: And she wrote to me "If my light's on darlin' if my curtain's drawn And if my light's on and from the street you smell a pot of coffee on If it's been wind and rainy weather And you know you've been gone far too long I'll keep my lights on I'll keep my lights on I'll keep my lights on 'till you get home." Keep your lights on, baby Keep your lights on, oh my darlin' Keep your lights on 'till I get home
© John McGaraghan