Tuning: standard
Cbsus2 F#/A# C#sus4/G# F# Cbsus2
Do you still keep paper flowers in the bottom drawer with your Belgian lace
F#/A# D#sus4 D#m
Taking them out every year to watch the colours fade away?
Cbsus2 F#/A# Fb/G# Fb
Do you still believe in fairy tales, in battlements of shining castles
D#m C#/D# D#m
Safe from the dragons that lie beneath the hill?
Cbsus2 F#/A# C#sus4/G# F#
Are you still a Russian princess rescued by a gypsy dancer
Cbsus2 F#/A# D#sus4 D#m
To anyone who'll listen is that a story you still tell?
Cbsus2 F#/A# Fb/G# Fb
You live a life of fantasy, your diary romantic fiction
Cb C#/Cb Cb C# C#7
Can't you see it's hard for me, can you see what I am trying to say?
F# A#m
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
Cb F#
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
C#/F D#m /C# Cb
For every one step forward we're taking two steps back
Cb F#/A# C#sus4/G# C#
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
D#sus D#m D#sus4 D#m Csus2 F# Fb Fb D#sus4 D#m D#sus4 D#m
Cb/C# C#
I know you still like old fashioned waltzes
Cb/C# C#
Your reflection in the mirror that you flirt with as you glide across the floor
Cb/D# C#/D#
But if I told you the music's over would you want to hear
Cb/D# C#/D#
That your dance card is empty that there's no-one really there?
Cbsus2 F#/A# C#sus4/G#
Do you still believe in Santa Claus, that there's a millionaire
F# Cbsus2 F#/A# D#sus4 D#m
Looking for your front door with a key to a life that you'd never understand?
Cbsus2 F#/A# Fb/G# Fb
All I have to offer is the love that I have, it's freely given
Cb C#/Cb Cb C# C#7
You'll see its value when you see what I've tried to say
F# A#m
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
Cb F#
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
C#/F D#m Cb
For every one step forward I'm taking two steps back
Cb F#/A# C#sus4/G# C# D#m
Can you get it inside your head that from this one step forward
Cb
There's no turning back?
Cb F#/A# C#sus4/G# C# D#sus4 D#m D#sus4 D#m
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
D#sus4 D#m D#sus4 D#m
We're finished dancing