Intro Eb G#m7 Eb G#m6
Eb Eb9 B9 G#m
Verse 1:
Eb G#m7 C#7 F#
Fate has been cruel and order unkind
D#m G#7 C#
How can I have sent you away?
B C# Ebm
The blame was my own, the punishment, yours
Bb G#m Bb
The harmony's silent today
Eb G#m7 C#7 F#
But into the stillness I'll bring you a song
D#m G#7 C#
And I will your company keep
B C# D#m
Till your tired eyes and my lullabies
Bb G#m Bb
Have carried you softly to sleep
( D#m )
Verse 2:
B F#
Once did a pony who shone like the Sun
C# D#m
Look out on her kingdom and sigh
B F# C# D#m
She smiled and said: Surely, there is no pony
G#m Bb D#m
So lovely and so well beloved as I
Bb G#m C#
So great was her reign and so brilliant her glory
F# G#m Bb
That long was the shadow she cast
Eb G#m Bb7 D#m
Which fell dark upon the young sister she loved
G#m Aº Bb D#m
And grew only darker as days and nights passed
Verse 3:
B F#
Soon did that pony take notice that others
C# D#m
Did not give her sister her due
B F# C# D#m
And neither had she loved her as she deserved
G#m Aº Bb D#m
She watched as her sister's unhappiness grew
Bb G#m C#
But such is the way of the limelight, it sweetly
F# G#m Bb7
Takes hold of the mind of its host
D#m G#m Bb7 D#m
And that foolish pony did nothing to stop
G#m Aº Bb D#m
The destruction of one who had needed her most
Verse 4:
G#m D#m G#m D#m
Lullay Moon princess, goodnight sister mine
Bb D#m
And rest now in moonlight's embrace
Bb7 D#m Bb7 D#m
Bear up my lullaby, winds of the earth
G#m Aº Bb7
Through cloud, and through sky, and through space
G#m G#m7 C# F#
Carry the peace and the coolness of night
Bb Bb7 D#m
And carry my sorrow in kind
B D#m F7 Bb
Luna, you're loved so much more than you know
G#m Bb B
May troubles be far from your mind
G#m Bb D#m
And forgive me for being so blind
( G# B C# B G#m7 C# )
Verse 5:
F#5 F# B
The years now before us
G#m C#
Fearful and unknown
F#5 F# B
I never imagined
E G#m C#
I'd face them on my own
F#5 F# B
May these thousand winters
G#m C#7
Swiftly pass, I pray
F# B
I love you; I miss you
G#m G#m7 C#
All these miles away
Bridge:
Eb G#m7 C# C#7 F#
May all your dreams be sweet tonight
B Cm7(5-) G#9/C Bbm
Safe upon your bed of moonlight
B Eb G#m C# F#
And know not of sadness, pain, or care
B G# B Bbm
And when I dream, I'll fly away and meet you there
B G# A#
Sleep
Final A#4 Eb G# Eb