Am            Em                  C    G
Take what you need while there's time
Am               G              C       G
The city will be earth in a short while
Am            Em    C             G
If I'm not mistaken it's been in flames
Am            G              C      G
You and I will escape to the seaside

Am         Em            C       G
There is a storm in the distance
Am                G                C      G
The wind breathing warning of its imminence
Am         Em          C           G
There is a lighthouse five hundred yards down
Am        Em       C          G
You and I will be safe there

Cm         Fm       G
There is a girl who haunts that lighthouse
    Cm              Fm        G 
She saved me, I was swimming

So young I almost drowned
G#        Cm   G
Under the water she sang a story
  G#          Cm    G
Of losing her lover
She calls a warning
E|-------------------------------------|
Am     Em     C      G   x4
Am            Em              C      G
Love, you are foolish, you're tired
    Am             Em          C     G
Your sleeplessness makes you a liar
   Am        Em          C         G
The city is burning, the ocean is turning
Am         Em           C        G
Our only chance is the lighthouse
E|-------------------------------------|------------------------------
Cm         Fm       G
Her lover was a sailor
She went and she waited there
    Cm                  Fm     G
The door locked from the outside
             G#              Cm      G
Lover never arrived so she sings there
                 G#        Cm             G               G
Soft as a siren luring the ships off their course, how alarming

Am            Em                  C    G
We went in, we climbed up and looked out
Am            Em
The door locked from the outside
C                 G
Three ghosts in a lighthouse