Everything I Say
How should I behave? Something that I V haven’t tried already?
It’s like I’m sorry and I worry that you’ll never even try to understand me.
Sometimes it’s twice-as-bad. I can’t stand to see you sad.
But when I try to do some joking, it just ends up flailing, choking and I just make you mad.
Then just when I feel like we’ve got it, V going great,
You start to dwell on who-can-tell until I know it’s just too late.
Everything I say, you take it in the wrong way.
Think I’d learn by now, but I’m optimistic.
Never meant to hurt you. Nothing that I could gain,
unless I was insane.
So I tried self-help books. I put my faith in those, neurotic crooks.
They say that women are from Venus and that I think with my – you know for the most part.
Is that the problem? Or are you just an V alien?
Each time I try communication, something gets lost in translation, and you hate me again.
Sometimes I feel like I’ll have to travel to the stars
to reach your alien-equivalent-of-a-human-heart.
Tell me now. Don’t let it wait. Before it gets too loud, before it gets too late.
Something’s wrong. I can see the boiling hate. It’s something I bring on. (Stop!)
Notes: C C# D# A#
I guess it’s just my fate.
Everything I Say
Intro (on beat):
c# min | Ab Eb | f# min | C# Ab - ao
c# min | Ab Eb | f# min | G# F#
Verse 8X (ska):
B F# | E F#
Pre-Chorus 4X (play straight):
B F# | E F# (4. Hold the E)
Chorus 4X (open up):
B | F# E
Verse 8X (ska):
B F# | E F#
Pre-Chorus 4X (play straight):
B F# | E F# (4. Hold the E)
Chorus 4X (open up):
B | F# E
Bridge:
c# min | Ab Eb | f min C# | Ab a dim
c# min | Ab Eb | f min C# | Ab F#
Chorus: 8X
B | F# E