Hide In Your Shell
Words & Music:
A F#m C#m B9(no3) D Bm G D
A
F#m
Cm
B9(no 3) D
Hide in your shell 'cause the
world is out to bleed you for a ride.
Bm
G
D
What will you gain making your
life a little longer?
Heaven or hell, was the
journey cold that gave you eyes of steel?
Shelter behind painting your
mind and playing joker.
C#
F#m
Too frightening to listen to a
stranger.
Too beautiful to put your
pride in danger.
D
G
You're waiting for someone to
understand you.
E
Esus4 E
Esus4
But you've got demons in your
closet and you're screaming out to stop it.
E
Esus4
Saying life's begun to cheat
you, friends are out to beat you,
D Dsus4 E
Grab on to what you can
scramble for.
CHORUS:
E
F#m
E
F#m
Don't let the tears linger on
inside, now, 'cause it's sure time you gained control.
D
Bm
G
Esus4 E
If I can help you, if I can
help you, if I can help you, just let me know.
Well, let me show you the
nearest signpost to get your heart back and on the road.
If I can help you, if I can
help you, if I can help you, just let me know.
A F#m
C#m B9(no 3) D Bm
G D
All through the night as you
like awake and hold yourself so tight.
What do you need, a
second-hand movie star to tend you?
I, as a boy, I believed the
single cure for pain was love.
How would it be if you could
see the world through my eyes?
Too frightening – the
fire's becoming colder.
Too beautiful – to think
you're getting older.
You're looking for someone to
give an answer.
But what you see is just
illusion; you're surrounded by confusion.
Saying life's begun to cheat
you, friends are out to beat you,
Grab on to what you can
scramble for.
CHORUS:
BRIDGE:
Dsus4
D
I wanna know... I wanna know...
I wanna know... Oh, I've got to know...
I wanna know you... I wanna know you...
Well, let me know you. I wanna feel you.
I wanna touch you. Please let me near you, let me near
youÉ
C#
Can you hear what I'm saying?
D
Well, I'm hoping, I'm
dreamin', I'm prayin'.
I know what you're thinkin',
see what you're seein'
E
Never, never let yourself go;
hold yourself down, hold yourself down
Why don't you hold yourself
down? Why don't you listen?
CODA: [over CHORUS: chords]
E
F#m
You can trust me, [So, what'cha gonna take it to?]
E
F#m
There's a place I know the way
to. [So, what'cha gonna make it
do?]
D
Bm
A place there is no need to...
[So, what's he gonna....?]
G
To feel you... [So, what's he gonna...?]
Esus4
E
To feel that you are alone [So,
what's he gonna do?]
Why don't you hear me? [So,
what'cha gonna take it to?]
I know exactly what you're
feelin'. [So, what'cha gonna make it do?]
'Cause all your troubles are
within you. [So, what's he gonna...?]
So, begin to... [So, what's
he gonna....?]
See that I'm just bleeding,
too. [So, what's he gonna do?]
Oh, love me, love you, loving
is the way to... [So, what'cha gonna take it to?]
Help me, help you. [So, what'cha gonna make it do?]
Why must we be so cool? [So,
what's he gonna...?]
Oh, so cool? [So, what's he
gonna...?]
Oh, we're such damn fools...
[So, what's he gonna do?]
[fade out]