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| C / Dm / | Em / Dm7 G |
I need new things to tell her | Dm / / / | F / / / |
That won't seem so awkwardly shy | Em / / / | F / Fm / |
I'm pretending to be strong and silent | C / Caug / | C6 / Caug / |
So hard that it's violent and plainly a lie | F / / / | Dm7 / G7 / |
I need new words to fight with | Dm / / / | F / / / |
That win me far more than a smile | Em / / / | F / Fm / |
A sentence that glitters and dances | C / Caug / | C6 / Caug / |
For my steely glances miss out by a mile | F / / / | Dm7 / G7 / |
I hear the wits' winning ways all around me | Dm / / / | Em / / / |
Sweet nothings that ring the right bell | F / Fm / | C / C7 / |
But their ease with a phrase is beyond me | Dm / / / | Em / / / |
Nipped in the bud, dried in the well | F / / / | G / / / |
I need a gift to give her | Dm / / / | F / / / |
That talks for me when I'm not there | Em / / / | F / Fm / |
And explains how the poems that start out | C / Caug / | C6 / Caug / |
By eating my heart out are lost on the air | F / G / | F / / / |
| Fm / / / | C |
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