Intro:
C/Bb F/A G - C x2
Verse:
C F/C
Call me a joker, call me a fool.
F6/C C
Right at this moment I'm totally cool.
C C/E F
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife.
F C
I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
Pre-Chorus:
C/Bb F/A
Sometimes it feels like I'm going too fast.
C/G D/F#
I don't know how long this feeling will last.
C/G G C
Maybe it's only tonight.
Chorus:
C/Bb F/A G C
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes.
C/Bb F/A G C
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens.
Gm6/Bb A7
And if I stand or I fall.
Dm Fm
It's all or nothing at all.
C/Bb F/A G C
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes.
Verse:
C F/C
Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm shot.
F6/C C
Sometimes I don't know how much more I've got.
C C/E F
Maybe I'm headed over the hill,
F C
Maybe I've set myself up for the kill.
Pre-Chorus
C/Bb F/A
Tell me how much do you think you can take
C/G D/F#
until the heart in you is starting to break?
C/G G C
Sometimes it feels like it will.
Chorus:
C/Bb F/A G C
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes.
C/Bb F/A G C
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens.
Gm6/Bb A7
You can be sure when I'm gone.
Dm Fm
I won't be out there too long.
C/Bb F/A G C
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes.
Bridge:
D Bb
Out of the darkness, into the light,
F C
leaving the scene of the crime,
D Bb F
Either I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right every time.
Am F
Sometimes I lie awake, night after night,
C G
coming apart at the seams.
D Bb
Eager to please, ready to fight.
F C
Why do I go to extremes?
Solo:
C/Bb F/A G - C x2
Gm6/Bb A7
And if I stand or I fall.
Dm Fm
It's all or nothing at all.
C/Bb F/A G C
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes.
Chorus:
C/Bb F/A G C
No I don't know why I go to extremes.
C/Bb F/A G C
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens.
Gm6/Bb A7
You can be sure when I'm gone,
Dm Fm
I won't be out there too long.
C/Bb F/A G C
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes.
Ending (Fade):
C/Bb F/A C
I don't know why. I don't know why.
