G
Run your fingers through your hair
C
Let's pick up from where we left off
G C
Call all your friends, announce the new victory
G D
Once you were sweet to me, knock it off
C
The music doesn't move you, doesn't soothe you
G
Doesn't prove you're worth a dime
C
You work 'round the clock, watch it tick and tock
G D
But this isn't your time
C G
Move over son, it's my turn to shine
Was there ever a moment
C
One small slice in history
G
When I took you seriously?
When your belt and your shoes
C G
Did not announce your poor taste so fearlessly?
D
'Cause that's news to me
C
And you can forget it, I get it
G C
I just don't let it get to me
G C
I regret to inform I do not fret or mourn
G
The way things used to be
C
It's all in the past now, it's all gone
C G C
And the only way into the sun is walking
G
But you'd rather run
D C
You'd rather run away
G
The songs he writes are for "dad"
C G
The true love lost 'fore he ever had
C
If stories begun "If father loved son"
G
We wouldn't be feelin' so bad
D
But doesn't everyone?
C
And it's not that I hate you
G C
I never loved you enough to hate you
G C
To get even or mad so as not to seem sad
G
Just seems ungrateful
C G
'Cause I am thankful I'm sad
Maybe we're the same unabashed and unashamed
C G
Then again, I dunno where you came from
You keep carvin' out names
C
First Jamie then James
G
And I can't keep up to restrain you
D
How come?
C G
We two came together for worst and for better
It's true
C
And the weather is clever
G D
But she's not the only one getting over you
C
It's me, too
C G C
And the only way into the sun is walking
G
But you'd rather run
D C
You'd rather run away
G C
My god, it's no fun to watch you play dumb
G
With your ugly hand on her thigh
C G
And she's nervous too, but politeness eschews
G C
The impulse to finger deny
G D
Plus, your girlfriend's a spy
C G
And what would she think to look up from her drink
C
And find you in your sad little vest tryin' hard to undress
G
The girls you sat down next to?
C
She'll think nothing
G
She'll be thinking of you
G
I'm glad I don't know the places you go
C G
I'm glad for you and for them
C G C
Let's be discreet if we are to meet on Ludlow ever again
D
Don't mention Ben
C G
It's funny what you miss, it's funny what you don't
C G C
I've thought it all through, the potential to fondly reminisce is this:
I won't
C G C
And the only way into the sun is walking
G
But you'd rather run
D C
You'd rather run away
G
Don't say we got along
C
That's remarkably wrong
It doesn't suggest or imply
G C
The thing about us you don't dare discuss
G D
We never got along famously, we just tried
C G
I tried to be good, I tried to be gracious and kind
C G D
But working with you has done nothing but prove a total waste of time
C G
'Cause the real curse is your mind
And sometimes at night I stare at the ceiling
C G
And wonder what's wrong with me
To involve myself with people
C G D
Who don't know what my true feeling might possibly be
C G
Who latch onto my strength like it's all they've got
C
It takes all of my strengths
G
And I go through such lengths
C G C
To show them it is not what they think they are stealing
C G C
And the only way into the sun is walking
G
But you'd rather run
D C
You'd rather run away
C G C
Yes, the only way into the sun is walking
G
But you'd rather run
D C
You'd rather run away
