Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

 You wait for a silence

 I wait for a word

 Lying next to your frame

 Girl unobserved

 You change your position

 You're changing me

 Casting these shadows

 Where they shouldn't be

We're interrupted

 By the heat of the sun

Trying to prevent

 What's already begun

You're just a body

 I can smell your skin

 And when I feel it

 You're wearing thin

 But I've got a plan

 Why don't you be the artist

 And make me out of clay?

 Why don't you be the writer

 Decide the words I say?

 Cause I'd rather pretend

 I'll still be there at the end

 Only it's too hard to ask

 Won't you try to help me?

Sat on your sofa

 It's all broken springs

 This isn't the place for

 Those violin strings

 I try out a smile

 And I aim it at you

 You must have missed it

 You always do

 But I've got a plan

 Why don't you be the artist

 And make me out of clay?

 Why don't you be the writer

 Decide the words I say?

 Cause I'd rather pretend

 I'll still be there at the end

 Only it's too hard to ask

 Won't you try to help me?

 You wait

 I wait

Casting shadows

 Interrupted

 You wait

 I wait

Casting shadows

 Interrupted

 You wait

 I wait

Casting shadows

 Interrupted

 You wait

 I wait

Casting shadows

 But I've got a plan

 Why don't you be the artist

 And make me out of clay?

 Why don't you be the writer

 Decide the words I say?

 Cause I'd rather pretend

 I'll still be there at the end

 Only it's too hard to ask

 Won't you try to help me?

One strum or pick

 Why don't you be the artist

 And make me out of clay?

 Why don't you be the writer

 Decide the words I say?

 Cause I'd rather pretend

 I'll still be there at the end

 Only it's too hard to ask

 Won't you try to help me?