A5                               E5
Oh elise it doesn't matter what you say
                             F#5
I just can't stay here every yesterday
                    D5
like keep on acting out the same

the way we act out
A5
every way to smile

forget
    E5
and make-believe we never needed
F#5
any more than this
D5
any more than this


    A5                               E5
oh elise it doesn't matter what you do
                         F#5
I know i'll never really get inside of you
             D5
to make your eyes catch fire

the way they should
A5
the way the blue could pull me in
        E5
if they only would

if they only would
   F#5                                       D5
at least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else

that hides away
A5
from me and you

there're worlds to part
     E5
with aching looks and breaking hearts
    F#5
and all the prayers your hands can make
   D5
oh I just take as much as you can throw
A5
and then I throw it all away
E5
oh I throw it all away
F#5
like throwing faces at the sky
     D5
like throwing arms around
E5
yesterday

I stood and stared
     F#5
wide-eyed in front of you
    E5
and the face I saw looked back
          F#5
the way I wanted to
      E5
but I just can't hold my tears away
    F#5
the way you do


  G5                   F#5
elise believe I never wanted this
  G5                                     F#5
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
  G5                                F#5
I thought you were the girl always dreamed about
      B5
but I let the dream go
        D5
and the promises broke
                         A5
and the make-believe ran out...


    A5
so elise
                           E5
it doesn't matter what you say
                             F#5
I just can't stay here every yesterday
                    D5
like keep on acting out the same

the way we act out
A5
every way to smile

forget
    E5
and make-believe we never needed
F#5
any more than this
D5
any more than this


    A5                           E5
and every time I try to pick it up

like falling sand
F#5
as fast as I pick it up
         D5
it runs away through my clutching hands
            A5
and there's nothing else I can really do
E5
there's nothing else I can really do
F#5
there's nothing else I can really do
   D5
at all...