Standard (EADGBE)

 Verse Shall we agree that just this once I'm gonna change my life

1:

  Until it's just as tiny or important as you like

  And in time we won't even recall that we spoke

  Words that turned out to be as big as smoke

  As smoke disappears in the air

  There's always something smoldering somewhere

Chorus

I know it don't make a difference to you

  But oh it sure made a difference to me

  You'll see me off in the distance I hope

  At the other end

  At the other end of the telescope

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 Verse The promise of indulgence in my confidential voice

2:

  Approached immortal danger but you'll never know how close

  Then down the hall I overheard such a heavenly choir

  They interrupted my evil desires

  One day you're up in the clouds

  The next thing you're down with the Sweet Adelines

(chorus)

Bridge

Lie down baby now don't say a word

  There there baby your vision is blurred

  Your head is so sore from all of that thinking

  I don't want to hurt you now

  But I think you're shrinking

 Verse You're half naked ambition and you're half out of your wits

3:

  Or several tiny fractions that this portrait still omits

  Now it's so hard to pick the receiver up when I call

  I never noticed you could be so small

  The answer was under your nose

  But the question never arose

Chorus

I know it don't make a difference to you

  But oh it sure made a difference to me

  You'll see me off in the distance I hope

  With a bamboo needle on a shellac of Chopin

  And the cast iron heart that you failed to tear open

  At the other end