Things I've Been Telling Myself For Years Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][Em][G][Am][C][F][Am]
[F][Am][Bm][Am][Bm][Am][Em][G][Am]
[Em][G][Am][C]
[F][Am][F][Am][Bm]

[Verse 1]
[Bm]Thing[Em] s I've been telling myself[G] for[Am] years

[Verse 2]
[Em]
[G]I can rea[Am]d people, yea[C]h
[F]Blushing peccadillos,
[Am]twisted bents and buried [F]fears[Am][Bm]
[G]Thing[Em] s I've been telling
[Am]myself for years
[Em][G]

[Verse 3]
[Am]I'm the dashboard hula girl of
nodding self-deception
[C]Here's [F]Here's to never accept[Am]ing slight
[Em]adjustment or [Am]correc[F]tion[Am]
[Bm]Here's to a doting mother[Am]'s vo[Bm]ice
[G]assis[Em]ting me in every choice
[G]Saying, "Ch[Am]orister, binman or barrister?
So lucky, son, to [Em]have [G]you"[Em]

[Verse 4]
[Am]Here's to walking in every room
Like ascending for [C]an Oscar
[F]Kissing hands and shak
[Am]ing babies
Blackpool rock im[F]poster[Am]
A [Em]can [Bm]non loosed, a g[Em]olden goose
[Am]Leo, [Em]sayer of the unsaid sooths[G]
[Am]I'll fix you with a cosmic stare
I'll fix your life, go fix your [G]hair,
I [Am]dare[C][F][Am][F]
[Am]you[Em][Bm][Em]
[Am][F][Am][Em]

[Verse 5]
[C]
Of [Am]course, I'll live to ninety-six
And And fix the welfare state
I'll [F]build a house with these two [Am]hands
My face [Dm]above the gate
[F]I haven't [Am]paid[Bm] for cabs or beers
[G]Or met[Em] a cunt in twenty year[G]s
[Am]Like all that outrun poverty
All I have was [F]coming [Am]to m[Bm]e

[Verse 6]
[Bm]Thing[Em] s I've been telling
[Am]myself for [F]years
[Am]All of t[Bm]hese thing[Em]s I've been telling
my[G]self [Am]for years[F][Am][Bm]
Thing[Em]s I've been
telling my[G]self [Am]for years