G D
Oh Elise it doesn’t matter what you say
Am
I just can’t stay here every yesterday
C
like keep on acting out the same the way we act out
G D
every way to smile forget and make-believe we never needed
Am C G D Am C
any more than this any more than this
G D
Oh Elise it doesn’t matter what you do I know
Am
I’ll never really get inside of you
C
to make your eyes catch fire the way they should
G D
The way the blue could pull me in if they only would
if they only would
Am C
at least I’d lose this sense of sensing something else
that hides away
G D
from me and you there’re worlds to part with aching looks
Am
and breaking hearts
C
and all the prayers your hands can make oh I just take
G
as much as you can throw
D
and then I throw it all away oh I throw it all away
Am
like throwing faces at the sky
C
like throwing arms around
D Em
Yesterday I stood and stared wide-eyed in front of you
D Em
and the face I saw looked back the way I wanted to
D Em
but I just can’t hold my tears away the way you do
F Em F
Elise believe I never wanted this I thought this time
Em
I’d keep all of my promises
F Em
I thought you were the girl always dreamed about
Am C
but I let the dream go and the promises broke
and the make-believe ran out…
D Em D Em }x2 Am C
G D
So Elise it doesn’t matter what you say
Am
I just can’t stay here every yesterday
C
like keep on acting out the same the way we act out
G
every way to smile forget
D Am
and make-believe we never needed any more
C
than this any more than this
G D
And every time I try to pick it up like falling sand
Am
as fast as I pick it up
C
it runs away through my clutching hands
G
and there’s nothing else I can really do
D Am
there’s nothing else I can really do there’s nothing else
C
I can really do at all…
