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