C                          G
Build me up, don't get me down
             Dm
Weather the storm
       F
Well, life goes on
C                         G
Feelings ebb and flow by hours
                  Dm
You're up in the clouds
              F
and then you sink like a stone



           F
So do you feed yourself with pills?
         C
Hope to deaden your ills
        F
Or are you only one love short
Am
of happiness
          F
And in a picture on the wall
     C
No glimmer of yourself at all
        Dm                F
You've left yourself far away



C                          G
Build me up, don't mop my brow
              Dm
Weather the storm? No...
          F
Because life goes on
C                        G
It's my only hope right now
                Dm
To soar like a bird
            F
and not to sink like a stone



           F
So do you feed yourself with pills?
        C
Oh, to deaden your ills?
                 F
Or are you only one love short
    Am
Of happiness
          F
And in a picture on the wall
     C
No glimmer of yourself at all
        Dm                 F
You've left yourself far away



G

solo: C , G , Dm , F;
      C , G , Dm , F



               F
Oh, so do you feed yourself with pills?
          C
To cure you of your ills
            F
Or are you only one love short
        Am
Of the happy days to come
          F
And in a picture on the wall
           C
You can't see your face at all
    Dm
So unti yourself
          F
Because that's all you've got to do
            F
And I can grow a pair of wings
           C
And I can take off flying

There'll be no crying
F                             Am
Up in the air, looking back down
                           F
And let me tell you, if I talk about gloom
            C
I don't get out of feeling down
      Dm
It strips you of yourself
         Bb                                C
and it splits you from the self that you know...