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