(intro / verso)

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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,
                        C               G
Because you had to know that I was fond of you,
Am      G       F
Fond of Y-O-U,
                        C               G    Am G
Though I knew you masked your disdain.
F               C                       G
I can see that change was just too hard for us,
Am      G       F
Hard for us.
You always had to hold the reigns,
                        Dm              G
But where I'm headed, you just don't know the way.

C (riff 1)
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,
                C               G
'Cause you had it in for me so long ago.
Am      G               F
Boy, I still don't know,
                C               G
I don't know why and I don't care,
        Am      G                   F
You don't hide me anymore,
                C               G
If you'd only seen yourself hating me.
Am G            F
Hating me,
           C                 G
When I've been so much more than fair.
                        Dm              G
But then you had to lay those feelings bare,
      Dm                G
One thing I know still got you scared,
        Dm
You're all that cold iron,
        F                    G
And never once aired of our dead.

(solo)
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(2x - começa o solo junto com esse riff 2x)

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F                       C               G
You had to know that I was fond of you,
Am  G          F
Fond of Y-O-U.
                C               G
So I took your lips at the time,
Am G            F
AHHHHHHHHHH
                        C               G
And to change like that is just so hard to do,
Am G            F
Hard to do.
                C               G
Don't let it whip-crack your life,
        Dm              G
And bow out from the fight,
        Dm              G
'Cause oh, how your sisters will write.
                Dm
The worst part is over,
        F       G
Now, get back on that horse and ride.