“Why”
by: Annie Lennox
Intro: C B/C A7
Verse: C B/C A7 F
How many times do I have to try and tell you, that I’m sorry for the things I’ve done?
But when I start to try and tell you, That’s when you have to tell me
“Hey, this kind of trouble’s only just begun.”
Bridge: D B/7 F#/D G (x2)
F A7
I tell myself too many times , why don’t you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut?
That’s why it hurts so bad, to hear the words that keep on falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth, falling from your mouth
Chorus: C B/7 A7 F
Tell me, why… Why…
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I may be mad, I may be blind, I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you’re thinking
And I’ve heard is said too many times that you’d be better off besides…
Why can’t you see, this boat is sinking (this boat is sinking, this boat is sinking)
Let’s go down to the water’s edge, and we can cast away those doubts
Some things are better left unsaid, but they still turn me inside out
Turning inside out, turning inside out
Tell me, why… Tell me, why…
This is the book I never read, These are the words I never said
This is the path I’ll never tread, These are the dreams I’ll dream instead
This is the joy that’s seldom spread, These are the tears, the tears we shed
This is the fear, this is the dread, These are the contents of my head
And these are the years that we’ve spent, And this is what they represent
And this is how I feel, Do you know how I feel?
‘Cause I don’t think you know how I feel, I don’t think you know how I feel
I don’t think you know how I feel, you don’t know how I feel
Written by: Annie Lennox
