Verse
G#/D# Fm
Driving through the long night, trying to figure who's right and who's wrong
G#/D#
Now the kid has gone
Fm
I sit belted up tight, she sucks on a match light glowing bronze
G#/D#
Steering on
C# D# G#/D#
And I might be more a man if I stopped this in it's tracks and said come on
Fm
Let's go home
C# D# Fm
But she's got the wheel, and I've got nothing except what I have on
[Chorus]
C# G#/D#
When you're driving with the brakes on
Fm
When you're swimming with you're boots on
C#
It's hard to say you love someone
D# Fm C# D#sus4 D#
It's hard to say you don't
[Verse 2]
G#/D# Fm
Trying to keep the mood right, trying to steer the conversation from
G#/D#
The thing we've done
Fm
She shuts up the ashtray and I say, "It's a long way back now, hon'"
G#/D#
And she just yawns
C# D# G#/D# Fm
We might get lost someplace, so desolate that no one where we're from would ever come
C# D# Fm
But she's got the wheel and I've got to deal from now on
[Chorus]
C# G#/D#
When you're driving with the brakes on
Fm
When you're swimming with you're boots on
C#
It's hard to say you love someone
D# Fm C# D#sus4
It's hard to say you don't
[Bridge]
D# G#/D# Fm
But unless the moon falls tonight
C# Fm C#
Unless continents collide
G#/D# Fm C#
Nothin's gonna make me
D# Fm C# D#
Break from her side
[Chorus]
C# G#/D#
When you're driving with the brakes on
Fm
When you're swimming with you're boots on
C#
It's hard to say you love someone
D#sus4 D# Fm
It's hard to say you don't
C#
It's hard to say you love someone
D#sus4 D# Fm C# G#
It's hard to say you don't