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 F7+ Dm
It looks like another fall.
Gm C7 F7+ Dm
Your good friends they don't seem to help at all.
Gm C7 F7+ Aº
You're feeling kind of cold and small,
Gm C7 F7+
just look up your rainy day man.
Gm C7 F7+ Dm
It does you no good to pretend, a child.
Gm C7 F7+ Dm
You've made a hole much too big to mend.
Gm C7 F7+ Aº
And it looks like you lose again, my friend,
Gm C7 F7+
Call on your rainy day man.
Dm C Bb7+ Am
Now rainy day man, he don't like sunshine,
Dm C
he don't chase rainbows,
Bb7+ Am
he don't need good times, no.
Dm C7 Bb7+ Am Bb7+ Am
Grey days rolling, then you'll see him, empty feeling,
Gm Gm7/C
now you need him.
Gm C7 F7+ Dm
All those noble thoughts, they just don't belong.
Gm C7 F7+ Dm
You can't hide the truth with a happy song.
Gm C7 F7+ Aº
And since you knew where you stood all along,
Gm C7 F7+
just look up your rainy day man.
Dm C Bb7+ Am
Now simple pleasures they all evade you,
Dm C Bb7+ Am
store-bought treasures, none can save you.
Dm C Bb7+ Am
Look for signs to ease the pain,
Bb7+ A Gm Gm7/C
ask again, go on and pray for rain.
Gm C7 F7+ Dm
It looks like another fall.
Gm C7 F7+ Dm
Your good friends they don't seem to help at all.
Gm C7 F7+ Aº
when you're feeling kind of cold and small,
Gm C7 F7+
just look up your rainy day man,
Aº Gm C7 F7+
all I need to do is look up your rainy day man.
C F/C C7 F/C
Now what good is that happy lie
C F/C C7 F/C C
When all you wanted from the start was to cry