Tuning: standard
Dsus2 A/C# Esus4/B A Dsus2
Do you still keep paper flowers in the bottom drawer with your Belgian lace
A/C# F#sus4 F#m
Taking them out every year to watch the colours fade away?
Dsus2 A/C# G/B G
Do you still believe in fairy tales, in battlements of shining castles
F#m E/F# F#m
Safe from the dragons that lie beneath the hill?
Dsus2 A/C# Esus4/B A
Are you still a Russian princess rescued by a gypsy dancer
Dsus2 A/C# F#sus4 F#m
To anyone who'll listen is that a story you still tell?
Dsus2 A/C# G/B G
You live a life of fantasy, your diary romantic fiction
D E/D D E E7
Can't you see it's hard for me, can you see what I am trying to say?
A C#m
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
D A
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
E/G# F#m /E D
For every one step forward we're taking two steps back
D A/C# Esus4/B E
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
F#sus F#m F#sus4 F#m D#sus2 A G G F#sus4 F#m F#sus4 F#m
D/E E
I know you still like old fashioned waltzes
D/E E
Your reflection in the mirror that you flirt with as you glide across the floor
D/F# E/F#
But if I told you the music's over would you want to hear
D/F# E/F#
That your dance card is empty that there's no-one really there?
Dsus2 A/C# Esus4/B
Do you still believe in Santa Claus, that there's a millionaire
A Dsus2 A/C# F#sus4 F#m
Looking for your front door with a key to a life that you'd never understand?
Dsus2 A/C# G/B G
All I have to offer is the love that I have, it's freely given
D E/D D E E7
You'll see its value when you see what I've tried to say
A C#m
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
D A
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
E/G# F#m D
For every one step forward I'm taking two steps back
D A/C# Esus4/B E F#m
Can you get it inside your head that from this one step forward
D
There's no turning back?
D A/C# Esus4/B E F#sus4 F#m F#sus4 F#m
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
F#sus4 F#m F#sus4 F#m
We're finished dancing