Tuning: standard
Csus2 G/B Dsus4/A G Csus2
Do you still keep paper flowers in the bottom drawer with your Belgian lace
G/B Esus4 Em
Taking them out every year to watch the colours fade away?
Csus2 G/B F/A F
Do you still believe in fairy tales, in battlements of shining castles
Em D/E Em
Safe from the dragons that lie beneath the hill?
Csus2 G/B Dsus4/A G
Are you still a Russian princess rescued by a gypsy dancer
Csus2 G/B Esus4 Em
To anyone who'll listen is that a story you still tell?
Csus2 G/B F/A F
You live a life of fantasy, your diary romantic fiction
C D/C C D D7
Can't you see it's hard for me, can you see what I am trying to say?
G Bm
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
C G
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
D/F# Em /D C
For every one step forward we're taking two steps back
C G/B Dsus4/A D
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
Esus Em Esus4 Em C#sus2 G F F Esus4 Em Esus4 Em
C/D D
I know you still like old fashioned waltzes
C/D D
Your reflection in the mirror that you flirt with as you glide across the floor
C/E D/E
But if I told you the music's over would you want to hear
C/E D/E
That your dance card is empty that there's no-one really there?
Csus2 G/B Dsus4/A
Do you still believe in Santa Claus, that there's a millionaire
G Csus2 G/B Esus4 Em
Looking for your front door with a key to a life that you'd never understand?
Csus2 G/B F/A F
All I have to offer is the love that I have, it's freely given
C D/C C D D7
You'll see its value when you see what I've tried to say
G Bm
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
C G
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
D/F# Em C
For every one step forward I'm taking two steps back
C G/B Dsus4/A D Em
Can you get it inside your head that from this one step forward
C
There's no turning back?
C G/B Dsus4/A D Esus4 Em Esus4 Em
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
Esus4 Em Esus4 Em
We're finished dancing