Tuning: standard
Ebsus2 A#/D Fsus4/C A# Ebsus2
Do you still keep paper flowers in the bottom drawer with your Belgian lace
A#/D Gsus4 Gm
Taking them out every year to watch the colours fade away?
Ebsus2 A#/D Ab/C Ab
Do you still believe in fairy tales, in battlements of shining castles
Gm F/G Gm
Safe from the dragons that lie beneath the hill?
Ebsus2 A#/D Fsus4/C A#
Are you still a Russian princess rescued by a gypsy dancer
Ebsus2 A#/D Gsus4 Gm
To anyone who'll listen is that a story you still tell?
Ebsus2 A#/D Ab/C Ab
You live a life of fantasy, your diary romantic fiction
Eb F/Eb Eb F F7
Can't you see it's hard for me, can you see what I am trying to say?
A# Dm
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
Eb A#
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
F/A Gm /F Eb
For every one step forward we're taking two steps back
Eb A#/D Fsus4/C F
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
Gsus Gm Gsus4 Gm Esus2 A# Ab Ab Gsus4 Gm Gsus4 Gm
Eb/F F
I know you still like old fashioned waltzes
Eb/F F
Your reflection in the mirror that you flirt with as you glide across the floor
Eb/G F/G
But if I told you the music's over would you want to hear
Eb/G F/G
That your dance card is empty that there's no-one really there?
Ebsus2 A#/D Fsus4/C
Do you still believe in Santa Claus, that there's a millionaire
A# Ebsus2 A#/D Gsus4 Gm
Looking for your front door with a key to a life that you'd never understand?
Ebsus2 A#/D Ab/C Ab
All I have to offer is the love that I have, it's freely given
Eb F/Eb Eb F F7
You'll see its value when you see what I've tried to say
A# Dm
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
Eb A#
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
F/A Gm Eb
For every one step forward I'm taking two steps back
Eb A#/D Fsus4/C F Gm
Can you get it inside your head that from this one step forward
Eb
There's no turning back?
Eb A#/D Fsus4/C F Gsus4 Gm Gsus4 Gm
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
Gsus4 Gm Gsus4 Gm
We're finished dancing