[Verse 1]
[F]                    [Dm]
The morning is dead and the day is too
[Bm]                                     [E]
There's nothing left here to lead me, but the velvet moon
[C]                  [G]
All my loneliness I have felt today
[D]                              [F]                            [F#]
It's a little more than enough to make a man throw himself away
[G]             [F] [F#] [G]                        [F] [F#] [G]
And I continue    to burn the Midnight Lamp,    alone 
 
:Intro Riff: (Implied F - Dm - Bm - E)
 
[Verse 2]
 [F]
Now the smiling portrait of you
[Dm]
Is still hanging on my frowning wall
[Bm]                                               [E]
It really doesn't, it really doesn't bother me   too much at all
[C]                                 [G]
It's just the uh ever falling dust that makes it so hard for me to see
[D]
That forgotten earring laying on the floor
[F]                           [F#]
Facing coldly towards the door
[G]             [F] [F#] [G]                         [F] [F#]  [G]
And I continue      to burn the Midnight Lamp,     all alone   Burn!
 
:F----F#- G----:
 
Yeah, yeah Lonely, lonely, lonely
 [G]----
Loneliness is such a drag
 
:Intro Riff: (Implied F - Dm - Bm - E)
 
[Verse 3]
 [F]                     [Dm]
So here I sit to face that same old fireplace
[Bm]
Getting ready for the same old explosion
[E]
Going through my mind
[C]
And soon enough the time will tell
[G]
About the circus in the wishing well
[D]
And someone who will buy and sell for me
[F]                          [F#]
Someone who will toll my bell
[G]              [F] [F#]  [G]                          [F] [F#] [G]
And I continue        to burn the same old lamp,     alone
 [G]     [F] [F#] [G      [F] [F#] [G]