Middle School Dance

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Middle School Dance (Song for Richard Swift)
Take the Kids Off Broadway (2012)

Transcribed by: Saviano P.

[Intro]
                   Dm           Bb         C
You say you want a mother not a confidante
        Gm                               F
But for years you’ve been doing what you want
         Dm                Bb            C
Now your mother don’t know where you are
          Gm                            F
She don’t know that you’re the superstar

[Verse 1]
       F          Gm   Bb   C
Little prostitute boy, step
        F                   Gm                        
Said if I don’t accept your beautiful lie to what you know
Bb          C
Then I show these people how to grow
Dm Bb       Dm   Bb 
Oh All this water
Dm               Bb
Not since making a doubt
    Dm        Bb   
All inside
           F
You’re all messed up
           Gm
You’re all dressed up
        Bb     C
For the letdown
   F              Gm
If I get on we’ll make it
             Bb            C
Time for the middle school dance

[Instrumental] 
Dm    Gm

[Bridge] 
    Dm                 Gm
And until I fall asleep
          Dm                  Gm
I’m still bruising all my dreams
     Dm              Gm
Woke up, why won’t you?
Dm   Gm
Stop

(x2)

[Refrain]
F              Gm     F        Gm
It’s detention here?
F                  Gm      F  Gm  Bb  C
What’s the tension here?

[Verse 2]
  F         
I put my head down in the evening light
  Bb
I like to walk round in the sunshine
  F
I put my head down in the sand at night
  Bb
I put my hands down and I know where you’re at, know yeah

[Instrumental 2]
Bbm            Gm     F  (x4)

[Outro]
Dm      C      Gm     F  (x4)