A D
Search through the sky for a sign or a simple suggestion
A D
I waited all night, but I was fast asleep when it knocked upon my door
F#m E
It gets lonely here when it's just me and my questions
D Dm
Jetsam in the Ether, pulsars pole not drawing anymore
[Interlude]
A E F#m E (x2)
[Verse 1]
A E F#m
I remember it like yesterday
D A F#m E
Thought that you were lovely, I just didn't know what to say
A E F#m E
There's all these protocols that get in the way
A E F#m
We were on the edge of seventeen
D A F#m E
All we knew to say were things we didn't mean
A E F#m E
'Til impressed you with my wit, it seemed
D A
I learned so much from magazines and television
D A
About how men relate through rules to tell them how
D A
Oh, I saw the signals with precision
F#m
The moments when our habits faltered
E
Omens of desires unhaltered
[Interlude]
A E F#m E (x2)
[Verse 2]
A E F#m
It wasn't long 'til we were sharing beds
D A F#m E
With different dressings on the dreams appearing in our heads
A E F#m E
I wanted a lover, you a brother instead
A E F#m
Either way, these things were hard to name
D A F#m E
Me, always wondering, did we feel the same?
A E F#m E
And after a while, all I could feel was shame
D A
Stef said I shouldn't see you anymore
D A
Clyde, they tried to call me on the phone to say
D A
Some love's are labors lost, oh, but I'm never sure
F#m
There's nothing they could tell me about
E
Made me really want to be alone
[Chorus]
D A
And I felt a funny face
F#m E
Was a worthless waste, caught a hopeless case
D A
For sweet boys on sweaty days
F#m E
Don't know what we crave, it remains unspoken
D A
The longing outlived the place
F#m E D
Our artistic taste, it outlived the clothes we wore
D A
When I feel uncertain now
F#m E
I remember how we carry the feeling
[Interlude]
A E F#m E (x2)
[Verse 3]
A E F#m
Those were stories that we saved for dark
D A F#m E
Lost the plot before they'd even start
A E F#m E
Except once when we were drunk and then you kissed me hard
A E F#m
And so, I fade into a distant star
D A F#m E
In the brightest company, but everything's so far
A E F#m E
Thinking lifetimes pass us, gaseous, things just stay as they are
D A
I tried to chalk it up to expectation
D A
Or believe that what I wanted was just wrong
D A
But now I better understand assimilation
F#m
I closed ranks among the ones who felt I
E
Only part belonged among them
[Chorus]
D A
And I felt a funny face
F#m E
Was a worthless waste, caught a hopeless case
D A
For sweet boys on sweaty days
F#m E
Don't know what we crave, it remains unspoken
D A
The longing outlived the place
F#m E D
Our artistic taste, it outlived the clothes we wore
D A
When I feel uncertain now
F#m E
I remember how we carry the feeling
