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