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