[Verse 1]
C G C G
C
You can fake it for a while,
Bite your tongue and smile,
Am Asus4 G
Like every mother does an ugly child.
C G C
But it starts to leaking out,
C
Like spittle from a cloud,
Am Asus4 G
Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound.
[Chorus]
C G F
You're entertaining any doubt,
C C G
Because you had to know that I was fond of you,
C G F
Fond of Y-O-U,
F C G
Though I knew you masked your disdain.
C G F
(La la la la la)
C G
I can see that change was just too hard for us,
C G F
Hard for us.
C G
You always had to hold the reigns,
Dm G
But where I'm headed, you just don't know the way.
[Verse 2]
C
So affections fade away,
And do adults just learn to play
G
The most ridiculous, repulsive games?
C G C
On the faith of ruddy suns,
And the double-barreled guns,
Am Asus4 G
You better hurry, Rabbit, run, run, run.
C G C
Cause meeting you was fun,
C Am Asus4 G
And there's a lot of hungry howlers in this one cell. taking it over,
C G C
Their brittle, thorny stems,
They break before they bend,
Am Asus4 G
And neither one of us is one of them.
[Chorus 2]
C G F
And the tails will never mend,
C G
‘Cause you had it in for me so long ago.
C G F
Boy, I still don't know,
C G
I don't know why and I don't care,
C G F
Well hardly anymore
C G
If you'd only seen yourself hating mE
C G F
Hating me,
C G
When I've been so much more than fair.
Dm G
But then you had to lay those feelings bare,
Dm G
One thing I know still got you scared,
Dm Am
You're all that cold iron,
Dm Am G
And never once aired on a dare
[Chorus/Outro]
F C G
You had to know that I was fond of you,
C G F
Fond of Y-O-U.
C G
So I took your lips at the time,
C G F
AHHHHHHHHHHaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
C G
And to change like that is just so hard to do,
C G F
Hard to do.
C G
Don't let it whip-crack your life,
Dm Dm/E Dm/F G
in a bow out from the fight,
Dm Dm/E Dm/F G
‘Cause oh, how your sisters will write.
Dm Am
The worst part is over,
Dm Am G
Now, get back on that horse and ride.
