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