Intro:  C  Em  D (3x)
        C  Em  G

  C         Em
You wait for a silence
  G         D
I wait for a word
    C         Em
Lying next to your frame
 G     D
Girl unobserved
   C       Em
You change your position
      G    D
You're changing me
 C         Em
Casting these shadows
   D         G
Where they shouldn't be

C        Em
We're interrupted
     G       D
By the heat of the sun
C        Em
Trying to prevent
     G     D
What's already begun
C          Em
You're just a body
     G      D
I can smell your skin
  C       Em
And when I feel it
      D   G
You're wearing thin

   Em      C  D
But I've got a plan
     C        G
Why don't you be the artist
  Em        D
And make me out of clay?
     C        Em
Why don't you be the writer
 G          D
Decide the words I say?
       Em     G
Cause I'd rather pretend
            D           C
I'll still be there at the end
        C        Em
Only it's too hard to ask
       D       G
Won't you try to help me?

C       Em
Sat on your sofa
     G        D
It's all broken springs
    C          Em
This isn't the place for
    G       D
Those violin strings
   C        Em
I try out a smile
   G        D
And I aim it at you
  C       Em
You must have missed it
    D   G
You always do

   Em      C  D
But I've got a plan
     C        G
Why don't you be the artist
  Em        D
And make me out of clay?
     C        Em
Why don't you be the writer
 G          D
Decide the words I say?
       Em     G
Cause I'd rather pretend
            D           C
I'll still be there at the end
        C        Em
Only it's too hard to ask
       D       G
Won't you try to help me?

 C
You wait
      Em
I wait
Em       D
Casting shadows
   D
Interrupted

 C
You wait
      Em
I wait
Em       D
Casting shadows
   D
Interrupted

 C
You wait
      Em
I wait
Em       D
Casting shadows
   D
Interrupted

 C
You wait
      Em
I wait
Em       D
Casting shadows

   Em      C  D
But I've got a plan
     C        G
Why don't you be the artist
  Em        D
And make me out of clay?
     C        Em
Why don't you be the writer
 G          D
Decide the words I say?
       Em     G
Cause I'd rather pretend
            D           C
I'll still be there at the end
        C        Em
Only it's too hard to ask
       D       G
Won't you try to help me?

One strum or pick

     C        G
Why don't you be the artist
  Em        D
And make me out of clay?
     C        Em
Why don't you be the writer
 G          D
Decide the words I say?
       Em     G
Cause I'd rather pretend
            D           C
I'll still be there at the end
        C        Em
Only it's too hard to ask
       D       G
Won't you try to help me?