Silent Treatment

C G When the silent treatment gets so loud it's buzzing in my head C G Your lips are moving, tells I should be somewhere else instead F C G Ooh, take a chance on today G Am She said she was a mermaid Am G F She said she liked horses F Am And then the silence finally breaks Am F You took all you could take F C There's no one there F So you try to minimize it Am Then you try to compromise it F G No one really, really, really cares C G In the city streets are filled with sheets of raindrops filled with bile C G The silence is so deafening it somehow makes me smile F C G Ooh, take a chance on tonight G Am But she said she was a mermaid Am G F She said she liked horses F Am She said she loved unicorns Am G F I'd never bet on the dragon F Am When the silence finally breaks Am F You took all you could take F C No one cares F And still you try to minimize it Am Then you try to compromise it F G No one's really, really, really there C G When the ice melts off the lake and it reflects on what is fake C G And you're skating somewhere, swimming I was losing every race F C G Ooh, one stolen moment might turn out right G Am She said she was a mermaid Am G F She said she liked horses F Am Never bet on the unicorn Am G F Never bet on the dragon F Am When the silence finally breaks Am F You find out just what's fake F C There's no one there F So you try to minimize it Am Then you try to compromise it F G Cause no one really, really, really cares