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Billy Joel – Turn The Lights Back On Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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Key: C
[Verse 1]
C               F
Please open the door
           G
Nothing is different,
                    E
 we've been here before
E7           Am
Pacing these halls
          F#m
Trying to talk over
     G       F G
the silence
    C
And pride sticks
         F
 out its tongue
              G
Laughs at the portrait
              E
that we've become
E7         Am
Stuck in a frame
          F#m
Unable to change,
       G     F G
 I was wrong

[Chorus]
    C             F
I'm late, but I'm here
       G
 right now
         E       E7
Though I used to be

   Am           D
romantic, I forgot
      G
somehow
         F   G          C
Time can make you blind
      F       G
But I see you now as
        E
 we're layin'
  E7     Am
 in the darkness
      D        G
Did I wait too long
             F   G
 to turn the lights
      C   F G F G
back on?

[Verse 2]
C                F
Herе, stuck on a hill
          G
Outsiders inside the
              E
 homе that we built
    E7           Am
The cold settles in
                 F#m
It's been a long winter
       G          F
 of indifference
    G         C
And maybe you love me,
            F
 maybe you don't
             G
Maybe you'll learn to,
            E
 maybe you won't
E7          Am
You've had enough,
 but I won't give
  F#m   G   F G
up on you

[Chorus]
    C
I'm late, but
     F          G
I'm here right now
        E           E7
And I'm tryin' to find
     Am
the magic that we
  D        G
lost somehow
      F G          C
Maybe I  was blind
      F       G
But I see you now as
       E      E7
we're layin' in the
   Am
 darkness
      D        G
Did I wait too long
             F   G
 to turn the lights

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[Instrument]
Am D G C G
F C G
F C G

[Chorus]
    C
I'm late, but I'm
 F           G
here right now
         E
Is there still time
 E7     Am
 for forgiveness?
          D       G
Won't you tell me how?
F        G         C
 I can't read your mind
      F       G
But I see you now as
       E      E7     Am
we're layin' in the darkness
      D        G
Did I wait too long
             F   G
 to turn the lights
      C   F
 back on?
               G   E
I'm here right now
         E7         Am  D
Yes, I'm here right now
               G        F G
Lookin' for forgiveness
      C            F
I can see as we're layin'
          G
 in the darkness
               E
Yeah, as we're layin'
  E7     Am
 in the darkness
      D          G F
Did I wait too long
             G
 to turn the lights
  C
back on?

How to play Turn The Lights Back: key, chords and progression

These are Turn The Lights Back On chords by Billy Joel on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Turn The Lights Back by Billy Joel is in the key of C major (no sharps or flats). The song uses 8 chords: C, F, G, E, E7, Am, F#m and D.

The progression the song keeps returning to is C – F – G – E (I – IV – V – III in C major). In solfa, that is doh – fah – soh – mi. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Good to know: F and F#m are played as barre or movable shapes on guitar. Practise the change into them slowly; on piano and ukulele the same chords are easier.