Fixing Her Hair

C   D   Em   D C


[Verse 1]
C
she's looking in the mirror
D
she's fixing her hair
      Em       D
and I touch my head to feel
           C
what isn't there

C
she's humming a melody
   D
we learned in grade school
Em
she's so happy
      D
and I think
C
this is not cool

C
'cause I know the guy
           D
she's been talking about
  Em       D      C
I have met him before
C
and I think
             D                   Em
what is this beautiful beautiful woman
D         C
settling for?


[Verse 2]
C
she bends her breath
         D
when she talks to him
      Em      D        C
I can see her features begin to blur
C
and she pours herself
D                    Em     D   C
into the mold he made for her
C                     D
and for everything he does
          Em       D      C
she has a way to rationalize
C                 D
she says he don't mean what he do
Em              D
she tells me he called
C
to apologize

[Verse 3]
C
he says he loves her
D
he says he's changing
Em         D        C
and he can keep her warm
C                          D
and so she sits there like america
Em                D      C
suffering through slow reform
C                         D
but she'll never get back the time
                  Em
and the years go, sneak by
D         C
one by one
C            D
she is still playing the martyr
Em         D           C
I am still praying for revolution


[Verse 4]
C                               D
and she still doesn't have what she deserves
                 Em      D     C
but she wakes up smiling every day
C                D
she never really expected more
            Em      D          C
that's just not the way we are raised
C
and I say to her,
    D
you know,
                  Em           D       C
there's plenty of really great men out there
C                    D
but she doesn't hear me
                     Em
she's looking in the mirror
D                C
she's fixing her hair