C                           G
Did you mean what you said when you told me you missed us
Am                   E
Without reservation, without plans for Christmas
F                         C
First part was right, the rest wasn't true
    F                        G
The same goes for me and the same goes for you
          C                             G
Packed my things for the month but it's not necessary
  Am                         E
I told you I'd stay but it's just temporary
     F                       C
Like swastika girls who fell back on their looks
   F                            G
We relied on the tricks and the recycled hooks
        C                       G
Did you want a response or just someone to edit?
     Am                          E
It's not what you said, it's the way that you said it
    F                             C
The longshoreman's daughter, when they spelled her name
      F                              G                      C
Found three chords of brilliance and rode them to fame, all alone

[Verse 1]
                      C
Pep up the formula tonight
                            Am
You're not obliged to do us favors
                         E F C G
Disenchanted hearts unite
                               F G
When you and I were candy ravers
                           C
Krushchev's Ekranoplan had failed
                            Am
Those weeks in August never seem fair
                              E F C G
Our love is left to sink or sail
                                      F G
You cut the summer blonde from your hair
                       C
A little time is all I need
                          Am
A disco bloodbath for the ages
                             E F C G
The patience left to let it bleed
                          F G
And a quill to fill the pages


[Chorus]
D                 F
Side streets set ablaze
        Am            G
And all roads lead to maybe
            D                 F
Sometimes I think about those days
            Am                 G
Sometimes I wish we'd kept the baby
             D                     F
I don't know how things could have changed
       G
At the latest


[Verse 2]
                            C
Our days in Kansas wouldn't last
                       Am
I never learned the KU fight song
                            G
Exchanging poisons from the past
                                F G
I hadn't heard from you in so long
                     C
And if the moonlight kills the flame
                              Am
With all the moments we were meant to
                             G
You know I'll tell the world your name
                                F   G
I couldn't let the world forget you

[Outro]
F                   G              C  Fm
Things were so much easier back in 1993
F                   G                  Cmaj7
I loved you for the first time on that day