Five Small Words

Elvis Costello

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Intro: E D A (4x)
E D A E D A Maybe you'll recognize in time
E D A E D A Maybe one day you will discover
E D A E D A All the pain that lies behind
E D A E D A You and your unfortunate love
G C/G G Somebody might be more
G B Unsuitable and strange
E G#m C#m F#m With eyes that offer everything
B A D [E D A (2x)] And are capable of danger
E D A E D A My mind turns over lies you told
E D A E D A Things said to your other lover
E D A E D A Sweet as they had been to me
E D A E D A You lay there telling them to each other
G C/G G Now I stand outside the door
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G B My head is filled with phrases
E G#m C#m F#m Inside someone's calling out
B A D Their voices rise in praises
E D A E D A Five Small Words: "Don't want you me anymore?"
E D A E D A Five Small Words (well, who is keeping score?)
B A Coward that you are, you would faithlessly implore
B "Baby please don't leave me"
A "Why don't you believe me?"
A [E D A (2x)] "Why did you deceive me?"
E D A E D A It didn't take some shiny dagger
E D A E D A Tattooed fingers grip and hone
E D A E D A I walked under some dark ladder
E D A E D A I heard your final loving moan
G C/G G All your indiscretions are
G B So merciful and brief
E G#m C#m F#m Genteel poison sprinkled on
B A D Your Spa--nish handkerchief
E D A E D A Five Small Words: "Don't you love me anymore?"
E D A E D A Five Small Words (well, who is keeping score?)
B A The coward that you are, you would faithlessly implore
B "Baby please don't leave me"
A "Why don't you believe me?"
A [E D A (2x)] "Why did you deceive me?"
E D A E D A Maybe in time you'll want me more
E D A E D A Accidentally like this .45
E D A E D A This .44
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