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