DIMMING OF THE DAY- Bonnie Raitt

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This old house is falling down around my ears
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I'm drowning in a river of my tears
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When all my will is gone, you hold me sway
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I need you at the dimming of the day.

CHORUS:
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You pull me like the moon pulls on the tide
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You know just where I keep my better side-----

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What days have come to keep us far apart?
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A broken promise or a broken heart
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Now all the morning birds have wheeled away
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I need you at the dimming of the day

CHORUS 2:
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Come the night you're only what I want
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Come the night you could be my confidant-----

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I see you on the street and in company
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Why don't you come and ease your mind with me
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I'm living for the night we steal away
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I need you at the dimming of the day
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I need you at the dimming of the day

NOTE:  This is actually orignially a Richard Thompson song,
but the Bonnie Raitt version has changed the key and
reordered some of the words.
(from Longing in Their Hearts, 1994)