Verse
Bm
Play us like pawns and relentlessly confine,
D
Into living up to gender roles and having absent minds
G
Don't you think it's funny how they tell us how to live?
E
Don't you think it's funny how we're all delinquent kids?
Bm D
Like, hush now, don't say, don't say
[Chorus]
Bm
Hush boy, oh hush boy, don't say a word
D
Throw on a jersey and no one gets hurt
G
Hush girl, oh hush girl, just bat your eyes
E
Play our little game, play our little game
[Verse]
Bm
Bounded all thoughts and corrected common sense
D
You're raising suicidals with your predetermined titles
G E
Like "a mess, distressed, I am unimpressed, you're excess
B dress is all you'll ever be."
Bm D
Gender roles impose control and deceive progressive time
E F#m
Welcome to the land of the broken mind
[Chorus]
Bm
Hush boy, oh hush boy, don't say a word
D
Throw on a jersey and no one gets hurt
F#m
Hush girl, oh hush girl, just bat your eyes
G
Play our little game, play our little game (2x)
[Bridge]
Bm D
We feign opulence just to get by
G E
Put on a false confidence just to feel alive
[Verse]
F#m
They can't hurt me anymore
Bm
There's nothing left to break of me
D
Nothing left to take from me
F#m
'Cause, baby, it's easy to fake a smile
D
When you've been doing it for a while
F#m
Baby, it's easy to fake a smile
E Bm
When you've been doing it for a while
[Chorus]
Bm
Hush boy, oh hush boy, don't say a word
D
Throw on a jersey and no one gets hurt
F#m
Hush girl, oh hush girl, just bat your eyes
G
Play our little game, play our little game (2x)
[Outro]
Bm
Play our little game
Play our little game
Play our little game
D G
Won't you play with me?