Verse
A#/F Gm
Driving through the long night, trying to figure who's right and who's wrong
A#/F
Now the kid has gone
Gm
I sit belted up tight, she sucks on a match light glowing bronze
A#/F
Steering on
D# F A#/F
And I might be more a man if I stopped this in it's tracks and said come on
Gm
Let's go home
D# F Gm
But she's got the wheel, and I've got nothing except what I have on
[Chorus]
D# A#/F
When you're driving with the brakes on
Gm
When you're swimming with you're boots on
D#
It's hard to say you love someone
F Gm D# Fsus4 F
It's hard to say you don't
[Verse 2]
A#/F Gm
Trying to keep the mood right, trying to steer the conversation from
A#/F
The thing we've done
Gm
She shuts up the ashtray and I say, "It's a long way back now, hon'"
A#/F
And she just yawns
D# F A#/F Gm
We might get lost someplace, so desolate that no one where we're from would ever come
D# F Gm
But she's got the wheel and I've got to deal from now on
[Chorus]
D# A#/F
When you're driving with the brakes on
Gm
When you're swimming with you're boots on
D#
It's hard to say you love someone
F Gm D# Fsus4
It's hard to say you don't
[Bridge]
F A#/F Gm
But unless the moon falls tonight
D# Gm D#
Unless continents collide
A#/F Gm D#
Nothin's gonna make me
F Gm D# F
Break from her side
[Chorus]
D# A#/F
When you're driving with the brakes on
Gm
When you're swimming with you're boots on
D#
It's hard to say you love someone
Fsus4 F Gm
It's hard to say you don't
D#
It's hard to say you love someone
Fsus4 F Gm D# A#
It's hard to say you don't