Ten Year Night

Lucy Kaplansky Ten Year Night written by Lucy Kaplansky Richard Litvin Lucy Kaplansky vocals/acoustic guitar Larry Campbell steel guitar/mandolin Jon Herington guitar Zev Katz bass Ben Wittman percussion A A/G# There is no one else around F#m D The road is quiet the only sound A A/G# D Is wind that sounds like cars that sound like breathing A A/G# The desert air is hot and dry F#m D Two lanes weaving earth and sky A A/G# D The stars are all that's keeping time till morning A A/G# And I turn aand look beside me F#m D And you're sleeping like a baby A A/G# D And you haven't heard a word that I've been saying A A/G# And the way you look tonight F#m D Fast asleep in the dashboard light A A/G# D Well I can't speak and that's how I feel A C#m D E Open your eyes and look at me look at me A C#m D E Open your eyes and look at me F#m D A E F#m Cause I have and hold this love for you D A E F#m Before this ten year night is through E I'm telling you A F#m# Take it from me D A D/G# Take it from me A A/G# We're ten years older I know we are F#m D Than the night we met in that downtown bar A A/G# You thought I was some kind of star D That's what you said A A/G# I felt your skin I felt the heat F#m D As you pulled me out into the street A A/G# D And you kissed me there till I was weak cause I asked you to A A/G# And later on on your kitchen floor F#m D Two flight above the grocery store A A/G# D I felt things I never felt before and I still do A C#m D E Open your eyes and look at me look at me A C#m D E Open your eyes and look at me F#m D A E F#m Cause I have and hold this love for you D A E F#m Before this ten year night is through E I'm telling you A F#m# Take it from me D A D/G# Take it from me D A Going eighty on the highway F#m E We're rushing somewhere D A But the way I feel tonight F#m E F#m It's like I'm already there A C#m D E Open your eyes and look at me look at me A C#m D E Open your eyes and look at me F#m D A E F#m Cause I have and hold this love for you D A E F#m Before this ten year night is through E I'm telling you I'm telling you A F#m# Take it from me D A D/G# Take it from me D A Take it from me From Lucy Kaplansky "Ten Year Night" Red House Records 1999 Lucyricky Music(ASCAP)