C
You can fake it for a while
Bite your tongue and smile
G
Like every mother does an ugly child
C
But the stars are leaking out
Like spittle from a cloud
G
Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound
F
You're entertaining any doubt
CG
Because you had to know that I was fond of you
CF
Fond of Y-O-U
CG
Though I knew you masked your disdain
FCG
I can see that change was just too hard for us
CF
Hard for us
You always had to hold the reigns
FFFFFFFF G
But where I'm headed you just don't know the way
C
So affections fade away
And do adults just learn to play
G
The most ridiculous repulsive games
C
On the faith of ruddy sons
And the double-barreled guns
You better hurry
G
Rabbit run run run
C
Cause meeting you was fun
G
And there's a lot of hungry howlers in this one cell
We're taking it over
C
Their brittle thorny stems
They break before they bend
G
And neither one of us is one of them
F
And the tails will never mend
CG
Cause you had it in for me so long ago
CF
Boy I still don't know
CG
I don't know why and I don't care
CF
You don't hide me anymore
CG
If you'd only seen yourself hating me
CF
Hating me
CG
When I've been so much more than fair
FFFFFFFF G
But then you had to lay those feelings bare
FFFFFFFF G
One thing I know still got you scared
FG
You're all that cold iron
FCG
And never once aired of our dead
INSTRUMENTAL (C-G-C-G
FCG
You had to know that I was fond of you
CF
Fond of Y-O-U
CG
So I took your lips at the time
CF
AHHHHHHHHHH
CG
And to change like that is just so hard to do
CF
Hard to do
CG
Don't let it whip-crack your life
FFFFFFFF G
And bow out from the fight
FFFFFF G
Cause oh how your sisters will write
FFFFF
The worst part is over
CCC FFF G
Now get back on that horse and ride