Tuning: standard
Fbsus2 B/D# F#sus4/C# B Fbsus2
Do you still keep paper flowers in the bottom drawer with your Belgian lace
B/D# G#sus4 G#m
Taking them out every year to watch the colours fade away?
Fbsus2 B/D# A/C# A
Do you still believe in fairy tales, in battlements of shining castles
G#m F#/G# G#m
Safe from the dragons that lie beneath the hill?
Fbsus2 B/D# F#sus4/C# B
Are you still a Russian princess rescued by a gypsy dancer
Fbsus2 B/D# G#sus4 G#m
To anyone who'll listen is that a story you still tell?
Fbsus2 B/D# A/C# A
You live a life of fantasy, your diary romantic fiction
Fb F#/Fb Fb F# F#7
Can't you see it's hard for me, can you see what I am trying to say?
B D#m
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
Fb B
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
F#/A# G#m /F# Fb
For every one step forward we're taking two steps back
Fb B/D# F#sus4/C# F#
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
G#sus G#m G#sus4 G#m Fsus2 B A A G#sus4 G#m G#sus4 G#m
Fb/F# F#
I know you still like old fashioned waltzes
Fb/F# F#
Your reflection in the mirror that you flirt with as you glide across the floor
Fb/G# F#/G#
But if I told you the music's over would you want to hear
Fb/G# F#/G#
That your dance card is empty that there's no-one really there?
Fbsus2 B/D# F#sus4/C#
Do you still believe in Santa Claus, that there's a millionaire
B Fbsus2 B/D# G#sus4 G#m
Looking for your front door with a key to a life that you'd never understand?
Fbsus2 B/D# A/C# A
All I have to offer is the love that I have, it's freely given
Fb F#/Fb Fb F# F#7
You'll see its value when you see what I've tried to say
B D#m
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
Fb B
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
F#/A# G#m Fb
For every one step forward I'm taking two steps back
Fb B/D# F#sus4/C# F# G#m
Can you get it inside your head that from this one step forward
Fb
There's no turning back?
Fb B/D# F#sus4/C# F# G#sus4 G#m G#sus4 G#m
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
G#sus4 G#m G#sus4 G#m
We're finished dancing