Turn On Me
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,
C F
Fond of Y-O-U,
C G
Though I knew you masked your disdain.
F C G
I can see that change was just too hard for us,
C F
Hard for us.
You always had to hold the reigns,
FFFFFFFF G
But where I'm headed, you just don't know the way.
C
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.
C F
Boy, I still don't know,
C G
I don't know why and I don't care,
C F
You don't hide me anymore,
C G
If you'd only seen yourself hating me.
C F
Hating me,
C G
When I've been so much more than fair.
FFFFFFFF G
But then you had to lay those feelings bare,
FFFFFFFF G
One thing I know still got you scared,
F G
You're all that cold iron,
F C G
And never once aired of our dead.
INSTRUMENTAL (C-G-C-G
F C G
You had to know that I was fond of you,
C F
Fond of Y-O-U.
C G
So I took your lips at the time,
C F
AHHHHHHHHHH
C G
And to change like that is just so hard to do,
C F
Hard to do.
C G
Don't let it whip-crack your life,
FFFFFFFF G
And bow out from the fight,
FFFFFF G
'Cause oh, how your sisters will write.
FFFFF
The worst part is over,
CCC FFF G
Now, get back on that horse and ride.
