White Lights chords by The Handsome Family

Em Bm C Am Em

 Em Em/F# G
When you walked with me
             C
away from the strip mall bar
 C/B    Am
across the highway
     D      G  D
to that little graveyard

    G
Where plastic flowers
          C
bloomed in yellow grass
 C/B  Am      D
we sat on a broken bench
 C           G
listening to the cars pass

   G
And right above your head
     C
in the branches of a tree
C/B     Am
there were white lights
     D       G  D
swaying slowly in the breeze

      Em
There were white lights,
 Bm
white lights,
 C
white lights
 Am     Em
swaying in a tree

Em/F# G
  I know they were there
     C            C/B
to stop kids kicking over graves
   Am       D
or spray-painting tree trunks
      C          G
with their favorite rock band's name

   G
But sitting there with you
    C
almost touching your white hand
 C/B    Am
among the broken bottles
 D        G D
crushed and faded cans

      Em
And those white lights,
 Bm
white lights,
 C
white lights
 Am       Em
swaying in the breeze

  Em/F# G
There was mystery
          C  C/B
singing from everything
   Am       D
the strip mall, the highway
   C         G
the boarded-up skating rink

      G
They were calling our names
     C
in the strip mall parking lot
 C/B    Am
our sweet drunken friends
     D       G D
finally noticing we'd gone

   G
But we just sat there
   C
not saying anything
 C/B  Am         D
almost touching hands your hair
    C        G  D
flying in the highway breeze

       Em
Like those white lights,
 Bm
white lights,
 C
white lights
 Am     Em Em/F#
swaying in a tree