Key: F
Introduction:
C#
There's a portrait
G#
In a back room
F#
Which I'll keep for days upon
C#
Which I relent
B
And gaze for hours on
A#m F#
The muscle, skin and bone
G#
Of some imaginary friend
C#
So how about it
G#
Show me please
F#
How I will look in twenty years
C#
And let me please
B
Interpret history
A#m F#
In every line and scar
G#
That's painted there in front of me
C#
It doesn't matter
G#
What I'm thinking
F#
What I tell myself to do
C# F#
I end up calling
C#
I stay in to
G#
Defrost the fridge
F#
Now the kid has gone to bed
C#
A feeling of dread
B
At least when she's around
A#m
The trouble's there
F# G#
It's worse to wake up with her falling 'round the room
C#
Listen Johnny
F#
You're like a mother
C# F#
To the girl you've fallen for
C#
And you're still falling
C#
Listen Johnny
G#
You're like a mother
F#
To the girl you've fallen for
C#
And you're still falling
B
And if they come tonight
A#m
You'll roll up tight
F# G#
And take whatever's coming to you next (oh, oh oh oh)