Patterns Cifras

    Dm
The night sets softly 
                         F    Dm
With the hush of falling le-e-eaves, 
 
Casting   shivering shadows
                          C
On the houses through the trees, 
        Dm
And the light from a street lamp 
                       F    Dm
Paints a pattern on my wa-a-all, 
                       C
  Like the pieces of a puzzle 
     Bb      C        Dm
Or a child's   uneven scrawl 
 
     Dm
Up a narrow flight of stairs 
                   F    Dm
In a narrow little ro-o-oom, 
 
As I lie upon my bed
                     C
In the early evening gloom. 
  Dm
Impaled on my wall 
                  F    Dm
My eyes can dimly se-e-e 
                   C
 The pattern of my life 
        Bb     C        Dm
And the puzzle  that is me. 
 
         Dm
From the moment of my birth 
                     F    Dm
To the instant of my de-e-eath, 
 
There are Patterns I must follow
                            C
Just as I must breathe each breath. 
       Dm
Like a rat in a maze 
                   F    Dm
The path before me li-i-ies, 
                       C
 And the pattern never alters 
  Bb  C        Dm
Until  the rat dies. 
 
        Dm
And the pattern still remains 
                           F    Dm
On the wall where darkness fe-e-ell, 
 
And it's fitting that it should,
                        C
For in darknesss I must dwell. 
         Dm
Like the color of my skin, 
                       F     Dm
Or the day that I grow o-o-o-old, 
                   C
My life is made of Patterns 
         Bb       C      Dm
That can scarcely  be controlled. 
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