Keeping Score

D Dmaj7 I was eighteen, freshly into college, D/F# Asus4 Kinda missed my family, feeling melancholic, Dmaj7/F# G Things were better than they were in high school, Dmaj7/F# Asus4 That place was a first rate depression cesspool, Dmaj7/F# G There was a lonely ache in my body, Dmaj7/F# G Asus4 Want somebody to hold me, just for the night, Dmaj7/F# Went looking for a heartbreak, G Looking for a mistake, Asus4 G Asus4 A* But I didn't know it at the ti-i-i-ime. G That was the autumn I was hoping I could pull you, Asus4 God, I really want to, D/F# Asus4 Nose always in a book, so I started wearing perfume, G Asus4 Said you liked the smart girls, had to up my game, Dmaj7/F# G Asus4 Studied for my one minute of fame, G Asus4 But you fed me to the lions, can't you hear them roar, Dmaj7/F# G Asus4* Sitting in the background, keeping score, N.C. Keeping score. D Dmaj7 D/F# G Asus4 A* D You knew that boy that said he loved me, Dmaj7 Four days into talking, D/F# G Asus4 And I dropped him because he set my skin crawling, D/F# G Held his life to my throat, wrote me ransom notes, Dmaj7/F# G Asus4 I couldn't sleep for months, Dmaj7/F# G Thought maybe you'd be different, and I was right, Dmaj7/F# G Asus4 But not in the way I hoped that might be, Dmaj7/F# G Oh, my avoidance met its match, Dmaj7/F# G Asus4* And I became attached. G That was the autumn I was trying hard to pull you, Asus4 God, I really want to, D/F# G Asus4 Lead 'em on, let 'em down, isn't that your full truth? G Asus4 Said you liked the smart girls, let you pick my brain, D/F# G Asus4 Was I at least good for your grades? G Asus4 But you fed me to the lions, can't you hear them roar, D/F# Asus4* Sitting in the background, keeping score, D Dmaj7 Dmaj7/F# G Asus4 Keeping sco-o-o-o-o-o-ore. Em7 G D/F# A I felt cool, under your attention, Em7 G D/F# And I guess you forgot, (beautiful girl) A Em7 To mention what you were looking for, Gmaj7 Wasn't me, D/F# A Em7 Gmaj7 Even though I wanted to be yours completely, D/F# A Asus4 Now I’m just keeping score. D Dmaj7 D/F# G Asus4 Ahh ah-ah D Dmaj7 I was eighteen, freshly into college, D/F# G Asus4 Kinda missed my family, feeling melancholic...