As It Is When It Was

G                            C
I've kept my head against the wall
G                        C
I've been this way for so long now
G                      C
You weren't exactly falling over yourself
Am     D
  When last I saw you
G             C
Well I always thought
G                     C
We'd get along like a house on fire
G                          C
Until you told me that I'd have to go
Am                         D
How can someone like you, work that slow?

[Chorus]

G             C
 Whatever you think of me
G                          C
You listen hard and I will make you see
G             C
 Whatever you think of me
Am                         D
You listen hard and I will make you see

[Instrumental]

G C G C G C Am D

[Verse 2]

G                     C
I don't feel anything no more
G                      C
This state of grace is consuming me
G                    C
I'm not grown up and I am not a boy

Am                 D
I feel no pain and I feel no joy
G              C
Well, I always thought
G                     C
We'd get along like a house on fire
G                       C
 In those days when the sun was warm
Am                   D
I ran in the street where I was born

[Chorus]

G             C
 Whatever you think of me
G                          C
You listen hard and I will make you see
G             C
 Whatever you think of me
Am                         D
You listen hard and I will make you see

[Instrumental]

G C Am D G C Am D G C Am D

[Bridge]

G                        C
The streets are so empty at this time of night
Am                    D
I'd rather walk on my own than fight
G                    C
In a world where I'd forgotten you
Am             D
I found myself forgotten, too
G                    C
That's the danger of believing books
Am                  D
And all the lies of those thieves and crooks
G                    C
We sing intellectual songs of love
Am                     D             G
From a stolen pen to a velvet glove, ooh

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