Am F
A cold crash of metal and gears
Am C G
Grip the wheel as I sit right here
Am F
Did she get away, the ghost of a deer
Am C G
Am I in this all alone?
Fm C G
Well I'm nine, singing carols at Christmas
Fm C G
I am trying to make sense of your tenses
Fm C G
I know a word but not the rest of your sentence
C G
There is nothing I can do
C G
Because I don't understand you
Am F
Always felt like I was walking a maze
Am C G
No one told me to go right or left
Am F
Blue or red, what colours disguise me
Am C G
So I look like all the rest?
Fm C G
Well I'm nine, singing carols at Christmas
Fm C G
I am trying to make sense of your tenses
Fm C G
I know a word but not the rest of your sentence
C G
There is nothing I can do
C G
Because I don't understand you
F G C F G
Your eyes never change their watchful gaze on the T.V. set
C F G Am
They're already a day ahead in the east
F G Am Fm Am G
Can an island mean more than me?
Am F
Well there you are, standing with people like you
Am C G
It seems I've never seen you laugh like you do
Am F C G
I count the ways I could have been more like you
Fm C G
Well I'm nine, singing carols at Christmas
Fm C G
I am trying to make sense of your tenses
Fm C G
I know a word but not the rest of your sentence
C G
There is nothing I can do
C G
Because I don't understand you
