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