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