Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

 I sit two stories above the street

 It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep

 There's life down below me though

The kids are walking home from school

 So long ago when we were taught

 That for whatever kind of puzzle you've got

 You just stick the right formula in

 A solution for every fool

 I remember the time when I came so close to you

 Sent me skipping my class and running from school

  [tacet]

And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool

 What makes me think I could start clean slated

  [tacet] /

The hardest to learn was the least complicated [mandolin]

 Oh I just sit up in the house and resist

 And not be seen until I cease to exist

 A kind of conscientious objection

A kind of dodging the draft

 The boy and girl are holding hands on the street

 And I don't want to but I think you just wait

 It's more than just eye-to-eye

 Learn the things I could never apply

 And I remember the time when I came so close with you

 I let everything go it seemed the only truth

  [tacet]

And I bought you that ring; it seemed the thing to do

 What makes me think I could start clean slated

  [tacet]

The hardest to learn was the least complicated

 So what makes me think I could start clean slated

 The hardest to learn was the least complicated

 Ohhhhh, I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself

All the things that I do

 And the next time I fall, I'm gonna have to recall

  - [tacet]

It isn't love, it's only something new

 I sit two stories above the street

 It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep

 There's life down below me though

The kids are walking home from school

 And I remember the time when I came so close with you

 Sent me skipping my class and running from school

  [tacet]

And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool

 What makes me think I could start clean slated

 The hardest to learn was the least complicated

 So what makes me think I could start clean slated

  [tacet]

The hardest to learn was the least complicated [mandolin]

 Least complicated

  [tacet; single notes: ----, -------- etc.]

Least complicated (Na naa, na na na na naaaa...)

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