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Light My Candle by Rent
Light My Candle
Tuning: Standard, Capo 3
Intro:
C Am C Am
ROGER
C Am
What'd you forget?
MIMI
C Am
Got a light?
ROGER
C Am G
I know you - you're - you're shivering
MIMI
F G
It's nothing they turned off my heat
F G
And I'm just a little weak on my feet
G Am G
Would you light my candle?
N.C.
What are you staring at?
ROGER
C Am C Am C Am
Nothing, your hair in the moonlight
C Am G
You look familiar
G
Can you make it?
MIMI
F G
Just haven't eaten much today
F
At least the room stopped spinning
G
Anyway. What?
ROGER
C Am C Am
Nothing, your smile reminded me of
MIMI
C Am G
I always remind people of - who is she?
ROGER
F G
She died. Her name was April.
MIMI
G
It's out again
F G
Sorry about your friend
G Am G
Would you light my candle?
ROGER
G
Well
MIMI
G
Yeah. Ow!
ROGER
G
Oh, the wax - it's
MIMI
G
Dripping! I like it - between my
ROGER
G
Fingers, I figured ...
G C
Oh, well. Goodnight ...
C Am
C Am
It blew out again?
MIMI
C Am
No - I think that I dropped my stash
ROGER
C Am C Am
I know I've seen you out and about
C Am
When I used to go out,
G
Your candle's out
MIMI
F G
I'm illin' - I had it when I walked in the door
F G
It was pure - is it on the floor?
ROGER
A
The floor?
MIMI
A G
They say I have the best ass
A G
Below 14th street. Is it true?
ROGER
G
What?
MIMI
A
You're staring again.
ROGER
G
Oh no.
A
I mean you do - have a nice -
C Am
I mean - you look familiar
MIMI
C Am
Like your dead girlfriend?
ROGER
C Am
Only when you smile.
G
But I'm sure I've seen you somewhere else -
MIMI
F G
Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club?
F G
That's where I work - I dance
ROGER
F G
Yes! They used to tie you up -
MIMI
G
It's a living
ROGER
F G
I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs
MIMI
G Am G
We could light the candle
G Am G
Oh won't you light the candle?
ROGER
C Am C Am
Why don't you forget that stuff
C Am C
You look like you're sixteen
MIMI
Am C Am
I'm nineteen - but I'm old for my age
C Am
I'm just born to be bad
ROGER
C Am G
I once was born to be bad
F
I used to shiver like that
MIMI
G
I have no heat - I told you
ROGER
F
I used to sweat
MIMI
G
I got a cold
ROGER
G
Uh huh
F
I used to be a junkie
MIMI
F
But now and then I like to
ROGER
G
Uh huh
MIMI
G
Feel good
ROGER
F
Oh, here it - um
MIMI
F
What's that?
ROGER
G
Candy bar wrapper
MIMI
G Am G
We could light the candle
G Am G
Oh, what'd you do with my candle?
ROGER
C Am
That was my last match
MIMI
C Am C
Our eyes'll adjust, thank
Am
God for the moon
ROGER
C Am C Am
Maybe it's not the moon at all
C Am
I hear Spike Lee's shooting down the street
MIMI
C Am
Bah humbug ... Bah humbug
ROGER
F
Cold hands
MIMI
G
Yours too.
F G
Big. Like my father's
F
Do you wanna dance?
ROGER
G
With you?
MIMI
F G
No - with my father
ROGER
G
I'm Roger
MIMI
C Am
They call me
C Am C
They call me Mimi
C
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| H hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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