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