Tuning: E A D G B E

[Intro] G F x 4 [Verse]

^GLady future's arms are lily white ^FThey stretch before you come inside ^GThere's room enough, she's generous ^FCome on, come up, while we're still young

^GYou want to love your life from a prison? ^FOf all this uninvited altruism ^GThe homemade weapons you're fashioning ^FAre hellbent on doing us both in

[Chorus]

^GYou never mean what you say Why don't you say what you mean? ^FI never get anywhere

I get the space in between

^GBeautifully mutilated Instantly antiquated ^FI will admit I almost always underestimate it

^GYou better mean what you say Why don't you say what you mean? ^FI never get anywhere

I get the space in between

^GBeautifully mutilated Instantly antiquated ^FI will admit I almost always underestimate it

[Instrumental] G F x2 [Verse]

^GLet's begin at the beginning Let us revisit the past ^FLike when the houselights are dimming

Like silver screen photograph

^GIt makes a beautiful sound When nobody else is around ^FIt has a wonderful way

Of eating up entire days

^GWe'll go swimming in libations ^FForgive unexplained lacerations ^GThe otherworldly manifestations ^FI could live in the breath you're wasting

[Chorus]

^GYou never mean what you say Why don't you say what you mean? ^FI never get anywhere

I get the space in between

^GBeautifully mutilated Instantly antiquated ^FI will admit I almost always underestimate it

^GYou never mean what you say Why don't you say what you mean? ^FI never get anywhere

I get the space in between

^GBeautifully mutilated Instantly antiquated ^FI will admit I almost always underestimate it You don't owe them ^Ganything No, you don't owe them ^Fanything No, you don't owe them ^Ganything

[Instrumental] G F x2 [Chorus]

^GYou never mean what you say Why don't you say what you mean? ^FI never get anywhere

I get the space in between

^GBeautifully mutilated Instantly antiquated ^FI will admit I almost always underestimate it

^GYou never mean what you say Why don't you say what you mean? ^FI never get anywhere

I get the space in between

^GBeautifully mutilated Instantly antiquated ^FI will admit I almost always underestimate ^Git

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