Hide in Your Shell

              Cm7              Ab             Eb        Eb6  Eb7
What will you gain making your life a little longer?

[Verse 2]

Bb/F      Gm6           BbMaj7            Gm6               Eb
Heaven or Hell, was the journey cold that gave your eyes of steel?
           Cm7               Ab               Eb
Shelter behind painting your mind and playing joker

[Chorus 1]
     D                           Gm/D
(Too Frightening) to listen to a stranger
     D                               Gm/D
(Too Beautiful) to put your pride in danger
        Eb                           Ab
(You're waiting for someone to under stand you
               F                                 F4
But you've got demons in your closet (you've got demons in your closet)
           F                                    F4
And you're screaming out to stop it (and you're screaming out to stop it)
       F
Saying life's begun to cheat you Friends are out to beat you
F7
Grab on to what you can scramble for

[Refrain]
              Dm                 Gm
Dont let the tears linger on inside now
          Dm                     Gm
Cos it's sure time you gained control
         Cm                 Cm/Bb
If I can help you, if I can help you
         Ab                    F
If I can help you, just let me know
              Dm                  Gm
Well, let me show you the nearest signpost
             Dm                   Gm
To get your heart back and on the road
         Cm                 Cm/Bb
If I can help you, if I can help you
         Ab                    F
If I can help you, just let me kno-o-o-ow

[Instrumental]

Bb/F - Gm6 - BbMaj7 - Gm6 - Eb - Cm7 - Ab - Eb   Eb6 Eb7

[Verse 3]

Bb/F            Gm6          BbMaj7        Gm6                  Eb
All through the night as you lie awake and hold yourself so, so tight
            Cm7                 Ab            Eb         Eb6  Eb7
What do you need, a second-hand-movie-star to tend you?

[Verse 4]

Bb/F   Gm6       BbMaj7               Gm6               Eb
I as a boy, I believed the saying the cure for pain was love
             Cm7             Ab                    Eb
How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes?

[Chorus 2]

    D                               Gm/D
Too Frightening- the fire's getting colder
    D                                  Gm/D
Too Beautiful- to think you're getting older
       Eb                             Ab
You're looking for someone to give an answer.
             F                                  F4
But what you see is just an illusion ( what you see is just an illusion)
             F                             F4
You're surrounded by confusion ( You're surrounded by confusion)
       F
Saying life's begun to cheat you

Friends are out to beat you
F7
Grab on to what you can scramble for

[Refrain]

             Dm                 Gm
Dont let the tears linger on inside now
         Dm                      Gm
Cos it's sure time you gained control
         Cm                 Cm/Bb
If I can help you, if I can help you
         Ab                    F
If I can help you, just let me know
             Dm                   Gm
Well, let me show you the nearest signpost
            Dm                    Gm
To get your heart back and on the road
         Cm                 Cm/Bb
If I can help you, if I can help you
         Ab                     F          F
If I can help you, just let me kno-o-o-o-o ow

        F4             F
I wanna know, i wanna know you
        F4             F
I wanna know, i got to know
        F4                Bb/F
I wanna know you, i wanna know you
            F                 F4
Well let me know you, i wanna feel you
             Bb/F
Ohh i wanna touch you, please let me near you, let me near you
        Eb/F
Can you hear! what im singin´
         Db/F
Well I'm hoping, I'm dreamin', I'm prayin'
 Eb/F                     Db/F
know what you're thinkin' See what you're seein'
Eb/F
Never, ever, let yourself go

Hold yourself down, hold yourself down

Why d'ya hold yourself down?



F                             Dm        Gm
Why don't you listen, you can trust me,
                           Dm     Gm
There's a place I know the way to
                 Cm      Cm/Bb
A place there is need to feel you
Ab                  F
Feel that you're alone
         Dm      Gm
Can you Hear me
                            Dm      Gm
I know exactly what you're feelin'
                          Cm
cos all your troubles are within you
       Cm/Bb    Ab                         F
please begin to see that I'm just bleeding to
Dm             Gm
Love me, love you
                     Dm
Loving is the way to Help me, help you
  Gm                Cm          Cm/Bb
- Why must we be so cool, oh so cool?
           Ab       F
Oh, we're such damn fools