Standard (EADGBE)
Walking with you through the courtyard
[f#m]
Where everything is marble and smooth
You said the idea of perfection
Was just fundamentally cruel
[bm]
and talked about joining the circus
and trading your face for a mask
Oh I know you, want to
I just don't believe that you can
We made quite a pair in the morning
[f#m]
We both tend to traffic in dreams
Seeing it now from the outside
You kept all your dark ones from me
[bm]
And said you plan to go rambling
As you sat on that big window sill
Oh I know you, want to
I just don't believe that you will
You long to go hide in the bramble
[f#m]
Or fall off the face of the earth
you wish you could live with the beggars
on the steps of some crumbling church
[bm]
you say you'd like to go hungry
but the truth is you just had your fill
Oh I know you, want to
I just don't believe that you will
On Sundays you stroll through the market
[f#m]
And feel like you traveled through time
Buying back all your possessions
That were stolen from some former life
[bm]
Return to me tied in a corset
To say "don't you know who I am?"
Oh I know you, want to
I just don't believe that you can
Yes I know you, want to
I just don't believe that you can
Instrumental
[bm]
And trying to make an invention
[f#m]
Something the worlds never seen
To sweep away all of the trouble
And leave the place shiny and clean
[bm]
Patent your brave new creation
And hold it right there in your hand
Oh I know you, want to
I just don't believe that you can
I waited for you at the landing
[f#m]
The water was crystal and calm
All these ideas of forever
Are just fundamentally wrong
[bm]
You say that your love makes you honest
Then you're caught with your hand in the till
Oh I know you, want to
I just don't believe that you will
Yes I know you, want to
I just don't believe that you will