Tonart: C major
Verse 1
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Used to be you were bad for me
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And every night I'd pray
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For you to change
Dm
Then you did, so it's strange
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When I hear myself say
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Please don't make me too happy
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Because if you do
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My songwriting will suffer
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from the bliss you
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put me through.
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Em
Nothing's quite as boring
Am
as two people this in love.
Cm
Em
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We'll be so blinded
Edim
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A
by the stars in our eyes.
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We won't see the stars above.
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Em
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We'll see rainbows in a naked sky
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An d in bottles on the ground,
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we'll draw rainbow
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Gm
s on those tablecloths.
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In cute restaurants downtown,
we'll pet puppies when
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we need them.
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Peek at babies in their strollers,
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completely.
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Right -wing atheists,
left -wing boulders,
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Em
we'll hold hands in the sit -in market,
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Eaug
we will make out in the movies,
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and for no apparent reason,
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we'll start singin', feelin' groovy.
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Paul Simon was in love when he wrote that,
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though not like he is now
Well I hope they're happy,
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but not that happy
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Or their songwriting will go to hell
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Please don't make me too happy
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I'm Catholic, you're Jewish,
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We were born to suffer, so
Em
And watch it with the flowers
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Am
And the perfume and the wine,
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Gm
Edim
I know we'll be in trouble
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Dm
Ddim
If we start smiling all the time
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Em
I'll write songs about pink sunsets
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Am
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And long walks along the ocean
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Edim
You'll buy Kenny G recordings
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Fm
Ddim
You'll learn to do the locomotion
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We'll read Barbara Cartland novels,
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cry at the end of every chapter.
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We'll believe it when she writes that,
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with heaving bosoms,
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the lovers lived happily ever after.
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Em
Then we'll rent old Yeller,
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Am
and a fair to remember the Casablanca.
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Edim
C
And anything and everything
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Fm
That stars are not fun and chill
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Oh, and Paul Anka
I always get them mixed up
Because of both prisoners of their hairdos
We won't care about
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the environment
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We won't watch the headline news
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Our IQs will drop to nothing
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Gm
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We won't understand the blues.
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Was that the blues?
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I didn't understand it!
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Please don't make me too happy
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I'll grow accustomed to this way of life
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Am
I'll turn sentimental, you'll turn sappy
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Dm
I want to be your wife
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Em
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Em
I'll stop hating shopping
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I will learn to cook a roast
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Perhaps pottery,
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that's what Demi Moore did in Ghost,
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Em
oh, she was so very happy.
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But Jesus, how she cried.
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Edim
Do you think there'll be a sequel?
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stay on the other side?
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A wise man once told me,
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Your greatest fear is your deepest wish,
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men like him confuse me.
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Already my IQ's starting to dip,
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Em
see that wasn't a very good rhyme.
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I fear my rhyming days are through,
cause all I can think about
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are rainbows and puppies
Dm
and rainbows and pup pies
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and rainbows and ba bies.
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You make me so happy,
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it's really getting me mad,
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anger is so awful,
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now I'm getting mor ose,
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Em
but that makes me happy,
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it's a vicious cycle that I'm on,
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if you keep making me happy,
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Ddim
One day you'll look,
G
and I'll be not here anymore.
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Yes,
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Dm
I'll be walking down that long, lonesome,
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horribly pathetic road.
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Am
No babies, no puppies,
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no rainbows on that road.
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Am
It'll be long and horrible and pathetic,
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but it will feel familiar.
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And I'll have a great big
What do you mean you don't understand
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me?
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