Verse
Fm C Fm C
Fm
Please listen closely
C
I think you think you know what I want, but you don't
C7
To want to know me
Fm F
Is to ask me to ask you to tell, but you won't
A#m
And so we sit here
Fm
And talk in circles
C
Pointed politeness
Fm
'Til we turn purple
C# C
Oh really, can we cut it all and break the walls and talk like we've been married forty years?
[Verse 2]
Fm
And so we dance, dear
C
Nose to nose but wanting to be mouth to mouth
C7
Give it a chance, dear
Fm F
Break the ice if there's ice, or at least ask me how
A#m
Because we sit here
Fm
Both with this knowing
C
There's something under
Fm
Forever growing
C#
Oh really, can we cut it all and break the walls
C
And not talk like we're married fifty years?
[Chorus]
Fm C Fm C
I know you're bored like me
[Verse 3]
Fm
So tell me kindly
C
I wonder if you love like I love loving you
C7
I'm going in blindly
Fm F
So make the risk want the risk like I want you to do
A#m Fm
Just scrap the questions take off the masks
C Fm
Let the curtain fall and lead me to the dark
C#
Oh, darling are you there say a word
C
I will not use this mouth for chatter anymore
[Chorus]
N.C. Fm C Fm C
Oh, I know you're bored like me