Intro: |C |Csus4|C |Csus4
Verse 1
C Csus4
Where did we go?
C Csus4 C
When was the moment that we broke in two?
Csus4
I think I know
C Csus4 G
In fact I am sure I can blame it on you
F/C C
I remember the first big surprise
G F/C C
The day you came home with your infrared eyes
Am G/B C Dm7
I looked inside them, but all I could see
F/C G C/G G7
Were tiny reflections of me
Chorus
F/C C
But it’s not me it’s you, what you’re turning into
Dm7 C
Is some kind of something that I never knew
F/C C
You used to be OK and I liked you that way
Am Am7/G D7/F#
But I don’t think that I like you better
F/C G C Csus4
No I don’t think that I like you better
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Verse 2
C Csus4
You started out small
C Csus4 C
Some gills and some wings and a few extra thumbs
C Csus4
Now you’re thirteen feet tall
C Csus4 G
Even when you’re asleep your machinery hums
F/C C
And I’m tired of the evenings I spend
G F/C C
Making small talk with your new robot friends
Am G/B C Dm7
And their stupid insistence on scanning my iris
F/C G C/G G7
When they know damn well who I am
Chorus
F/C C
And you look like the victim of a surgical crime
Dm7 C
A little Darth Vader, a little Optimus Prime
F/C C
You used to be OK and I liked you that way
Am Am7/G D7/F#
But I don’t think that I like you better
F/C G Ab
No I don’t think that I like you better
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Verse 3
C Csus4
So that’s how it goes
C Csus4 C
Snap your mandibles once to say you understand
Csus4
Now hold me close
C Csus4 G
Wait, now that’s too close, you’re crushing my hand
F/C C
I can tell by that shrieking alarm
G F/C C
That your weapons systems are active and armed
Am G/B C Dm7
Do me a favor and power them down
F/C G C/G G7
Just so we don’t have a scene
Chorus
F/C C
And I wish it was different, but we’re just not the same
Dm7 C
At least we got someone we know we can blame
F/C C
You used to be OK and I liked you that way
Am Am7/G D7/F#
But I don’t think that I like you better
F/C G C
No I don’t think that I like you better
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