Standard (EADGBE)
Build me up, don't get me down
Weather the storm
Well, life goes on
Feelings ebb and flow by hours
You're up in the clouds
and then you sink like a stone
So do you feed yourself with pills?
Hope to deaden your ills
Or are you only one love short
of happiness
And in a picture on the wall
No glimmer of yourself at all
You've left yourself far away
Build me up, don't mop my brow
Weather the storm? No...
Because life goes on
It's my only hope right now
To soar like a bird
and not to sink like a stone
So do you feed yourself with pills?
Oh, to deaden your ills?
Or are you only one love short
Of happiness
And in a picture on the wall
No glimmer of yourself at all
You've left yourself far away
Solo
Oh, so do you feed yourself with pills?
To cure you of your ills
Or are you only one love short
Of the happy days to come
And in a picture on the wall
You can't see your face at all
So unti yourself
Because that's all you've got to do
And I can grow a pair of wings
And I can take off flying
There'll be no crying
Up in the air, looking back down
And let me tell you, if I talk about gloom
I don't get out of feeling down
It strips you of yourself
and it splits you from the self that you know...