Youd Rather Run

G
Run your fingers through your hair
              C
Let's pick up from where we left off
 G                                 
Call all your friends, announce the
             C
 new victory
               G                   
Once you were sweet to me, knock it
  D
 off


C
The music doesn't move you, doesn't 
soothe you
                             G
Doesn't prove you're worth a dime
C
You work 'round the clock, watch it 
tick and tock
        G              D
But this isn't your time
C                  G
Move over son, it's my turn to shine



Was there ever a moment
                   C
One small slice in history
                G
When I took you seriously?

When your belt and your shoes
C                                 
Did not announce your poor taste 
  G
so fearlessly?
                      D
'Cause that's news to me


C
And you can forget it, I get it
G                           C
I just don't let it get to me
G                                 
I regret to inform I do not fret 
  C
or mourn
               G
The way things used to be
                     C
It's all in the past now, it's all 
gone


C                         G   C
And the only way into the sun is 
walking
                 G
But you'd rather run
             D   C
You'd rather run away


G
The songs he writes are for "dad"
C                                G
The true love lost 'fore he ever had
If stories begun "If father loved 
C
son"
                          G
We wouldn't be feelin' so bad
                 D
But doesn't everyone?


C
And it's not that I hate you
G                        C
I never loved you enough to hate you
G                                 
To get even or mad so as not to 
   C
seem sad
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                  G
Just seems ungrateful
C                        G
'Cause I am thankful I'm sad



Maybe we're the same unabashed and 
unashamed
C                                  
Then again, I dunno where you came 
G
from

You keep carvin' out names
C
First Jamie then James
G
And I can't keep up to restrain you
    D
How come?


C                                 
We two came together for worst and
     G
 for better

It's true
C
And the weather is clever
                       G           
But she's not the only one getting 
     D
over you
C
It's me, too



C                         G   C
And the only way into the sun is 
walking
                 G
But you'd rather run
             D   C
You'd rather run away


G                              
My god, it's no fun to watch you 
       C
play dumb
                           G
With your ugly hand on her thigh
C                        
And she's nervous too, but 
             G
politeness eschews
G                     C
The impulse to finger deny
G                         D
Plus, your girlfriend's a spy


C                                 
And what would she think to look 
           G
up from her drink
             C
And find you in your sad little vest
 tryin' hard to undress
G
The girls you sat down next to?
C
She'll think nothing
                      G
She'll be thinking of you


G
I'm glad I don't know the places you
 go
C                        G
I'm glad for you and for them
C                              G 
Let's be discreet if we are to 
                     C
meet on Ludlow ever again
              D
Don't mention Ben


C                                 
It's funny what you miss, it's 
            G
funny what you don't
C                              
I've thought it all through, the 
               G                
potential to fondly reminisce is 
   C
this:

I won't



C                         G   C
And the only way into the sun is 
walking
                 G
But you'd rather run
             D   C
You'd rather run away

G
Don't say we got along
                  C
That's remarkably wrong

It doesn't suggest or imply
G                                 
The thing about us you don't dare 
C
discuss
                   G               
We never got along famously, we 
  D
just tried


C                                 
I tried to be good, I tried to be 
             G
gracious and kind
                 C           
But working with you has done 
             G                     
nothing but prove a total waste of 
 D
time
 C                             G
'Cause the real curse is your mind



And sometimes at night I stare at 
the ceiling
    C                        G
And wonder what's wrong with me

To involve myself with people
                    C              
Who don't know what my true feeling
 G              D
 might possibly be


C                                 
Who latch onto my strength like 
               G
it's all they've got
C
It takes all of my strengths
                      G
And I go through such lengths
             C                  
To show them it is not what they 
 G     C
think they are stealing



C                         G   C
And the only way into the sun is 
walking
                 G
But you'd rather run
             D   C
You'd rather run away


C                         G   C
Yes, the only way into the sun is 
walking
                 G
But you'd rather run
             D   C
You'd rather run away