Key: C
Introduction: C Gm7/C
C F/C C7 F/C
What good is that happy lie?
C F/C C7 F/C C
All you wanted from the start was to cry, girl.
Gm C7 F7M Dm
It looks like another fall.
Gm C7 F7M Dm
Your good friends they don't seem to help at all.
Gm C7 F7M Aº
You're feeling kind of cold and small,
Gm C7 F7M
just look up your rainy day man.
Gm C7 F7M Dm
It does you no good to pretend, a child.
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You've made a hole much too big to mend.
Gm C7 F7M Aº
And it looks like you lose again, my friend,
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Call on your rainy day man.
Dm C Bb7M Am
Now rainy day man, he don't like sunshine,
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he don't chase rainbows,
Bb7M Am
he don't need good times, no.
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Grey days rolling, then you'll see him, empty feeling,
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now you need him.
Gm C7 F7M Dm
All those noble thoughts, they just don't belong.
Gm C7 F7M Dm
You can't hide the truth with a happy song.
Gm C7 F7M Aº
And since you knew where you stood all along,
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just look up your rainy day man.
Dm C Bb7M Am
Now simple pleasures they all evade you,
Dm C Bb7M Am
store-bought treasures, none can save you.
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Look for signs to ease the pain,
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ask again, go on and pray for rain.
Gm C7 F7M Dm
It looks like another fall.
Gm C7 F7M Dm
Your good friends they don't seem to help at all.
Gm C7 F7M Aº
when you're feeling kind of cold and small,
Gm C7 F7M
just look up your rainy day man,
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all I need to do is look up your rainy day man.
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Now what good is that happy lie
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When all you wanted from the start was to cry