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