[BPM - 132 - Verse] [C#m] Ooh Watching [E] Me, [B] Hanging By A String This Time [C#m] [C#m] Oh Easi [E] ly The [B] Climax Of A Perfect Life. [C#m] [C#m] Ooh Watching [E] Me, [B] Hanging By A String This Time [C#m] [C#m] Oh Easi [E] ly, My [B] Smiles Worth A Hundred Lies. [C#m]
[C#m] If There's Lessons To Be [E] Learned, [B] I'd Rather Get My Jamming [C#m] Words In Firs [C#m] Tell Ya Something That I've [E] Found, That The [B] Worlds A Better Place When It's [C#m] Upside Down Bo [C#m] If There's Lessons To Be [E] Learned [B] I'd Rather Get My Jamming [C#m] Words In Firs [C#m] When Your Playing With De [E] sire, Don't Come [B] Running To My Place When It [C#m] Burns Like Fire, Boy
[Chorus] [C#m] Me, [E] Nothing Sweet About [B] Me, Y [C#m] ah [C#m] Me, [E] Nothing Sweet About [B] Me, Y [C#m] ah [C#m] Me, [E] Nothing Sweet About [B] Me, Y [C#m] ah [C#m] Me, [E] Nothing Sweet About [B] Me, Y [C#m] ah
[Verse] [C#m] Blue, Blue, Blue [E][B] Waves They Crash [C#m] [C#m] Time Goes By [E] So [B] Hard To Catch [C#m] [C#m] Too, Too Smooth [E][B] Ain't All That [C#m] [C#m] Don't You [E] Ride My S [B] de Of The Tracks [C#m]
[C#m] If There's Lessons To Be [E] Learned, [B] I'd Rather Get My Jamming [C#m] Words In Firs [C#m] Tell Ya Something That I've [E] Found, That The [B] Worlds A Better Place When It's [C#m] Upside Down Bo [C#m] If There's Lessons To Be [E] Learned [B] I'd Rather Get My Jamming [C#m] Words In Firs [C#m] When Your Playing With De [E] sire, Don't Come [B] Running To My Place When It [C#m] Burns Like Fire, Boy
[Chorus] [C#m] Me, [E] Nothing Sweet About [B] Me, Y [C#m] ah [C#m] Me, [E] Nothing Sweet About [B] Me, Y [C#m] ah [C#m] Me, [E] Nothing Sweet About [B] Me, Y [C#m] ah [C#m] Me, [E] Nothing Sweet About [B] Me, Y [C#m] ah
[Piano Intro - No drums - muted arpeggio picking with first finger] [A][D][G][G] x3
[Verse 1 - Drums in light - keep picking going] [A] You would not b [D] elieve your eyes [G] If ten million fireflies [A] Lit up the [D] world as I fell a [G] sleep [A] 'Cause they'd fill the o [D] pen air [G] And leave teardrops everywhere [A] You'd think me rude But I [D] would just stand and [G] stare
[Chorus - Just bass drum] [G] I'd like to [D] make myself be [A] lieve That planet [G] Earth [D] turns [F#m] slow [G] ly It's hard to say that I'd [D] rather stay [G] Awake when [A] I'm a [Bm] sleep 'Cause [G] everything is [D] never as it [E] seems
[Verse 2 - Light drums-] [A] 'Cause I'd get a [D] thousand hugs [G] From ten thousand lightning bugs [A] As they tried to [D] teach me how to [G] dance [A] A foxtrot a [D] bove my head [G] A sock hop beneath my bed A [A] disco ball is [D] just hanging by a [G] thread
[Chorus - Full drums and strum] [G] I'd like to [D] make myself be [A] lieve That planet [G] Earth [D] turns [F#m] slow [G] ly It's hard to say that I'd [D] rather stay [G] Awake when [A] I'm a [Bm] sleep 'Cause [G] everything is [D] never as it [A] seems When I fall as [D] leep (pause - count 1 2 3 4 from sleep)
[Bridge - Light drums] [A] Leave my door [D] open just a [G] crack (Please take me away from here) [A] 'Cause I feel like [D] such an insomn [G] iac (Please take me away from here) [A] Why do I [D] tire of counting [G] sheep (Please take me away from here) [A] When I'm far too [D] tired to fall a [G] sleep (pause)
[Verse 3 - Light drumas] [A] To ten million [D] fireflies [G] I'm weird 'cause I hate goodbyes [A] I got misty e [D] yes as they said [G] farewell [A] But I'll know where [D] several are [G] If my dreams get real bizarre 'Cause I [A] saved a few and [D] I keep them in a [G] jar
[Chorus - Full drums] [G] I'd like to [D] make myself b [A] elieve That planet [G] Earth [D] turns [F#m] slow [G] ly It's hard to say that I'd [D] rather stay [G] Awake when [A] I'm a [Bm] sleep 'Cause [G] everything is [D] never as it [E] seems When I fall asleep
[G] I'd like to [D] make myself b [A] elieve That planet [G] Earth [D] turns [F#m] slow [G] ly It's hard to say that I'd [D] rather stay [G] Awake when [A] I'm a [Bm] sleep 'Cause [G] everything is [D] never as it [A] seems When I fall a [G] sleep (see below - I'd like)
[Outro] (single Strums) [G] I'd like to [D] make myself b [A] elieve That planet [G] Earth [D] turns [F#m] slow [G] ly It's [G] hard to say that I'd r [D] ather stay Aw [G] ake when [A] I'm as [Bm] leep Be [G] cause my dreams are [D] bursting at the [A] seams
