Tabs
(Capo on 2nd fret)
C F C F
C F C
Safe, safe - enjoy your time feeling so safe,
F C
and treasure that smile on your face, okay?
Am D G
cause time will see that it's replaced in a while
C F C
So go on & smile, smile, handshakes all around, that's your style
F C
and no one would call it denial, for you're
Am D G
not even sure what's in store, though it's more
F C G Am
than you'll be able to take standing up straight. And it won't be okay.
F C G
And you won't be somebody who it's just happening to,
D
it's a trap that you, and only you, have
C F C
laid. Laid with a towel up over your face,
F C
in your armchair, just lying in wait, waiting
Am D G
forces were gathering outside your door. They sharpened their
C F C F
knives and smiled with no smiles in their eyes, a little bit larger
C Am
in size and a little bit
D G
hungrier for that tiny prize.
F C G Am
And my mother she said "Son, remember this, no matter what someone did:
F C G Am
that they once were just a kid at breast and in bib, in blanket and crib.
F G C F
So just reach inside yourself and find that part that still needs help,
F C G D
find that part in someone else and you'll do good," so I thought that I would.
HORN BREAK (C F C F)
C F C F
Hey, hey - I love you, it goes without saying. I would give you the world
C Am D G
on a tray, though they're already tracing a line across your throat.
C F C
Far too late in the game you'll find that you have been betrayed:
F C
propped up and pushed into your place
Am D G
I could claim that it all would go great, but the reason I came is
C F
to say that it won't. You should
C F C
know that it won't, you should know that it won't
F C
you should know that it won't
D C
and so, Phillip, let go