Intro
G# F# x 4
[Verse]
G#
Lady future's arms are lily white
F#
They stretch before you come inside
G#
There's room enough, she's generous
F#
Come on, come up, while we're still young
G#
You want to love your life from a prison?
F#
Of all this uninvited altruism
G#
The homemade weapons you're fashioning
F#
Are hellbent on doing us both in
[Chorus]
G#
You never mean what you say
Why don't you say what you mean?
F#
I never get anywhere
I get the space in between
G#
Beautifully mutilated
Instantly antiquated
F#
I will admit I almost always underestimate it
G#
You better mean what you say
Why don't you say what you mean?
F#
I never get anywhere
I get the space in between
G#
Beautifully mutilated
Instantly antiquated
F#
I will admit I almost always underestimate it
[Instrumental]
G# F# x2
[Verse]
G#
Let's begin at the beginning
Let us revisit the past
F#
Like when the houselights are dimming
Like silver screen photograph
G#
It makes a beautiful sound
When nobody else is around
F#
It has a wonderful way
Of eating up entire days
G#
We'll go swimming in libations
F#
Forgive unexplained lacerations
G#
The otherworldly manifestations
F#
I could live in the breath you're wasting
[Chorus]
G#
You never mean what you say
Why don't you say what you mean?
F#
I never get anywhere
I get the space in between
G#
Beautifully mutilated
Instantly antiquated
F#
I will admit I almost always underestimate it
G#
You never mean what you say
Why don't you say what you mean?
F#
I never get anywhere
I get the space in between
G#
Beautifully mutilated
Instantly antiquated
F#
I will admit I almost always underestimate it
G#
You don't owe them anything
F#
No, you don't owe them anything
G#
No, you don't owe them anything
[Instrumental]
G# F# x2
[Chorus]
G#
You never mean what you say
Why don't you say what you mean?
F#
I never get anywhere
I get the space in between
G#
Beautifully mutilated
Instantly antiquated
F#
I will admit I almost always underestimate it
G#
You never mean what you say
Why don't you say what you mean?
F#
I never get anywhere
I get the space in between
G#
Beautifully mutilated
Instantly antiquated
F# G#
I will admit I almost always underestimate it