Verse
E/B C#m
Driving through the long night, trying to figure who's right and who's wrong
E/B
Now the kid has gone
C#m
I sit belted up tight, she sucks on a match light glowing bronze
E/B
Steering on
A B E/B
And I might be more a man if I stopped this in it's tracks and said come on
C#m
Let's go home
A B C#m
But she's got the wheel, and I've got nothing except what I have on
[Chorus]
A E/B
When you're driving with the brakes on
C#m
When you're swimming with you're boots on
A
It's hard to say you love someone
B C#m A Bsus4 B
It's hard to say you don't
[Verse 2]
E/B C#m
Trying to keep the mood right, trying to steer the conversation from
E/B
The thing we've done
C#m
She shuts up the ashtray and I say, "It's a long way back now, hon'"
E/B
And she just yawns
A B E/B C#m
We might get lost someplace, so desolate that no one where we're from would ever come
A B C#m
But she's got the wheel and I've got to deal from now on
[Chorus]
A E/B
When you're driving with the brakes on
C#m
When you're swimming with you're boots on
A
It's hard to say you love someone
B C#m A Bsus4
It's hard to say you don't
[Bridge]
B E/B C#m
But unless the moon falls tonight
A C#m A
Unless continents collide
E/B C#m A
Nothin's gonna make me
B C#m A B
Break from her side
[Chorus]
A E/B
When you're driving with the brakes on
C#m
When you're swimming with you're boots on
A
It's hard to say you love someone
Bsus4 B C#m
It's hard to say you don't
A
It's hard to say you love someone
Bsus4 B C#m A E
It's hard to say you don't