Tuning: standard
Fsus2 C/E Gsus4/D C Fsus2
Do you still keep paper flowers in the bottom drawer with your Belgian lace
C/E Asus4 Am
Taking them out every year to watch the colours fade away?
Fsus2 C/E A#/D A#
Do you still believe in fairy tales, in battlements of shining castles
Am G/A Am
Safe from the dragons that lie beneath the hill?
Fsus2 C/E Gsus4/D C
Are you still a Russian princess rescued by a gypsy dancer
Fsus2 C/E Asus4 Am
To anyone who'll listen is that a story you still tell?
Fsus2 C/E A#/D A#
You live a life of fantasy, your diary romantic fiction
F G/F F G G7
Can't you see it's hard for me, can you see what I am trying to say?
C Em
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
F C
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
G/B Am /G F
For every one step forward we're taking two steps back
F C/E Gsus4/D G
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
Asus Am Asus4 Am F#sus2 C A# A# Asus4 Am Asus4 Am
F/G G
I know you still like old fashioned waltzes
F/G G
Your reflection in the mirror that you flirt with as you glide across the floor
F/A G/A
But if I told you the music's over would you want to hear
F/A G/A
That your dance card is empty that there's no-one really there?
Fsus2 C/E Gsus4/D
Do you still believe in Santa Claus, that there's a millionaire
C Fsus2 C/E Asus4 Am
Looking for your front door with a key to a life that you'd never understand?
Fsus2 C/E A#/D A#
All I have to offer is the love that I have, it's freely given
F G/F F G G7
You'll see its value when you see what I've tried to say
C Em
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
F C
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
G/B Am F
For every one step forward I'm taking two steps back
F C/E Gsus4/D G Am
Can you get it inside your head that from this one step forward
F
There's no turning back?
F C/E Gsus4/D G Asus4 Am Asus4 Am
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
Asus4 Am Asus4 Am
We're finished dancing