Why
Words & Music:
Annie Lennox &
Peter-John Vettese
From Annie Lennox' 1992
album Diva. The vocals are
freely sung around the chord changes.
These are approximate placings.
Listen to the recording to see where everything goes or come up with
your own version.
INTRO: C
C/B Am F [2x]
CHORUS:
C C/B Am F
Why---------------------? [2x]
C
C/B
Am
F
How many times do I have to
try to tell you that I'm sorry
C
C/B Am F
[etc.]
For the things I've done?
But when I start to try to
tell you that's when you have to tell me:
"Hey, this kind of
trouble's only just begun."
D
D/C#
Bm
G
I tell myself too many times,
"Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut?"
D
D/C#
Bm
G
That's why it hurts so bad to
hear the words that keep on falling from your mouth.
C
Am
F (G)
Falling from your mouth,
falling from your mouth, tell me:
CHORUS:
I may be mad, I may be blind,
I may be viciously unkind.
But, I can still read what
you're thinking.
And I've heard it said too
many times that you'd be better off...
Besides, why can't you see
this boat is sinking?
Let's go down to the water's
edge and we can cast away those doubts.
Some things are better left
unsaid but they still turn me inside out.
Turn me inside out, turn me
inside out, tell me:
CHORUS:
OUTRO: [sung under the CHORUS repeating]
C
C/B
This is the book I never read;
these are the words I never said.
Am
F [etc.]
This is the path I'll never
tread; these are the dreams I'll dream instead.
This is the joy that's seldom
spread; these are the tears, the tears we shed.
This is the fear, this is the
dread, these are the contents of my head.
And these are the years that
we have spent and this is what they represent.
And this is how I feel. Do you know how I feel?
'Cause I don't think you
know...I don't think you know what I feel.
I don't think you know what I
fear; you don't know what I fear.