Verse 1:
Eb                                 Abadd9
I've seen dark before, but not like this
        Bb                         Ebmaj7 Ab
This is cold. This is empty. This is numb.
    Cm            Ab        Bb
The life I knew is over. The light's are out.
      Ebmaj7                    Ab
Hello darkness, I'm ready to sucxxxb.
 
Verse 2:
  Cm                 Abadd9
I follow you around I always have.
           Bb                       Ebmaj7 Ab
But you've gone to a place I cannot find
      Cm          Ab         Bb
This grief has a gravity, it pulls me down
      Ebmaj7                     F    G
But a tiny voice whispers in my mind:
        Cm            Bb
You are lost, hope is gone
        Eb      Ab
But you must go on
    Eb                 Bb
And do the next right thing
 
Verse 3:
Eb        Cm                    Ab
Can there be a day beyond this night?
         Bb                   Ebmaj7 Ab
I don't know anymore what is true
  Cm              Ab           Bb
I can't find my direction, I'm all alone
   Ebmaj7                         F    G
The only star that guided me was you.
       Cm              Bb
How to rise from the floor
              Eb              Ab
When it's not you I'm rising for?
     Eb                 Bb
Just do the next right thing
        Ab         xBbsusx
Take a step, step again
      Eb  Ebmaj7 Cm Eb  Ab
It is all that I can to do
     Bb          B
The next right thing
 
Bridge:
B   
I won't look too far ahead
B        Abm            Bbm
It's too much for me to take
Ebm7b5                         Fm
But break it down to this next breath
          Abaug
This next step
            E      Dbm7          xAbsusx   Ab
This next choice is one that I can make
 
Verse 4:
        Dbm                B
So I'll walk through this night
     E                        A
Stumbling blindly toward the light
    E                   B
And do the next right thing
              A                B7sus   B7
And with the dawn, what comes then?
            E        Emaj7           Dbm           A
When it's clear that everything will never be the same again
          Gbm7               E   
Then I'll make the choice to hear that voice
    A       B           E
And do the next right thing