C5 
You can fake it for a while,

Bite your tongue and smile,
           A5    Am4        G5
Like every mother does an ugly child.
        C5         G5     C5
But it starts to  leaking out,
C5
Like spittle from a cloud,
                                G5
A5   am4
Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound.



CHORUS

C5       G5               F5
You're entertaining any doubt,
                                        
        C5               C5               G5
Because you had to know that I was fond of you,
C5       G5   F5
Fond of Y-O-U,
F5                       C5               G5
Though I knew you masked your disdain.
C5       G5    F5
(La la la la la)
        C5                               G5
I can see that change was just too hard for us,
C5       G5       F5
Hard for us.
        C5                       G5
You always had to hold the reigns,
D5                                                G5
But where I'm headed, you just don't know the way.


VERSE 2
C5
So affections fade away,

And do adults just learn to play
                       G5
The most ridiculous, repulsive games?
       C5        G5     C5
On the faith of ruddy suns,

And the double-barreled guns,
           A5     am4  G5
You better hurry, Rabbit, run, run, run.
      C5       G5       C5
Cause meeting you was fun,
C5                    A5     am4          G5
And there's a lot of hungry howlers in this one cell. taking it over,
      C5        G5      C5
Their brittle, thorny stems,

They break before they bend,
                   A5    am4 G5
And neither one of us is one of them.



chorus 2
        C5       G5        F5
And the tails will never mend,
                C5               G5
?Cause you had it in for me so long ago.
C5      G5     F5 
Boy, I still don't know,
                C5               G5
I don't know why and I don't care,
     C5      G5  F5 
Well hardly anymore
                C5               G5
If you'd only seen yourself hating mE
C5  G5   F5 
Hating me,
                C5               G5
When I've been so much more than fair.
                        
                   D5                  G5
But then you had to lay those feelings bare,
    D5                         G5
One thing I know still got you scared,
        D5           A5         
You're all that cold iron,
    D5         A5         G5
And never once aired on a dare

INSTRUMENTAL (18bars copy verse)
Chorus

F5                       C5               G5
You had to know that I was fond of you,
C5       G5   F5
Fond of Y-O-U.
                C5          G5
So I took your lips at the time,
C5    G5    F5
AHHHHHHHHHHaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
                   C5               G5
And to change like that is just so hard to do,
C5       G5       F5
Hard to do.
                C5            G5
Don't let it whip-crack your life,
      D5   D5 D5   G5        
in a bow out from the fight,
        D5   D5 D5            G5              
?Cause oh, how your sisters will write.
    D5            A5
The worst part is over,
     D5          A5             G5       
Now, get back on that horse and ride.