Intro [Drum, Spoken Word]
| n.c. | [x4]This is a song about the greatest heartbreak I have ever knownThis song is called "Nightingale Lane"
Verse 1
| F | Eb/F |On a street in the South London suburbs | Bb/F | F |Where my first love kissed me goodbye | F | Eb/F |His lips were thin and beer-stained and tear-stained | Bb/F |Was a pain that made me colder now | Bbm/F |After the oceans I cried, I'm made of steel Just floating now, mm-mm
Pre-Hook
| Am7 | Dm7 | But when I drive down this road | Gm7 F/A | [3/8] Bbm7 | F/A | I reminisce I drive slow I've let him go now | Dm7 | Ebm7 | Ebm7 | just see a ghost town And sometimes at red lights (With closed eyes) | Ebm7 | [Ritard…]I tell myself, I dare myself To go on, just say
Hook [A Tempo]
key change to Bb| Bb/F | Bb/F | Somebody loved me once (Loved me once) | F | F |And someday, somebody will again | Eb/Bb | Eb/Bb |Like the way you loved me (Take me back in your arms, oh, my love, just tonight) | Ebm7/Bb | Ebm7/Bb |On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane) | Bb/F | Bb/F |Although we never made it Stranger, you showed me it's true | F | F |I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you | Eb/Bb | Eb/Bb |It was right there early June Next to Old Park Avenue | Ebm7/Bb | Ebm7/Bb |(On Nightingale Lane) Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away
Verse 2
key change to F| F | Eb/F | Took me long, hard years to get over you | Bb/F | F |It was an aching I refuse to feel again | F | Eb/F |And looking back now We never were quite right for each other, baby | Bb/F | Bbm/F |But in the absence of passion in my life I remember how alive love once was
Pre-Hook
| Am7 | Dm7 | But when I drive down this road | Gm7 F/A | [3/8] Bbm7 | F/A | I reminisce I drive slow I've let him go now | Dm7 | Ebm7 | Ebm7 | just see a ghost town And sometimes at red lights (With closed eyes) | Ebm7 | [Ritard…]I tell myself, I dare myself To go on, just say
Hook
key change to Bb| Bb/F | Bb/F | Somebody loved me once (Loved me once) | F | F |And someday, somebody will again | Eb/Bb | Eb/Bb |Like the way you loved me (Take me back in your arms, oh, my love, just tonight) | Ebm7/Bb | Ebm7/Bb |On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane) | Bb/F | Bb/F |Although we never made it Stranger, you showed me it's true | F | F |I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you | Eb/Bb | Eb/Bb |It was right there early June Next to Old Park Avenue | Ebm7/Bb | Ebm7/Bb |(On Nightingale Lane) Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away
Instruments [Cool Down] [Spoken Word]
key change to F| F | Eb/F | Bb/F | F |Yeah-yeah-yeah, ayy, yeah-yeah, da-da-da-ayyI've, I've dabbled in love since Maybe every other summer It never lasts long| F | Eb/F | Bb/F | Bbm/F |They never stick around I'm made of steel now (I'm made of steel)I believe someday, someone gon' come alongAnd knock them walls down (Down, down)And knock them walls down (Knock them walls down)
Bridge
| Am7 | Dm7 | when I drive down this road | Gm7 F/A | [3/8] Bbm7 | F/A | Dm7 | I'm reminded, though I've let him go now
Bridge [Freely]
| Ebm7 |Right here in this ghost town Right here on this ground is where | Ebm7 Bb/F |Someone once loved me| Ebm/Bb Bb7/Ab Gb Gb F Ebm |someday , someone will again…
Ending [A Tempo]
key change to Bb| Bb | Bb | Ab/Bb | Ab/Bb || Eb/Bb | Eb/Bb | Gbmaj7 | Gbmaj7 | Someone will I know, I know it, I know it | Bb/F | Bb/F | Fsus4 | F |Someone will love me Like the way you loved me | Ebm | Bb |On Nightingale Lane
