(Intro) AmFAmEAmGCEAmF
Outside the cafe
AmE
by the cracker factory
AmGCE
You were practicing a magic trick..
AmF
And my thoughts got rude..
AmE
as you talked and chewed
AmGCE
On the last of your pick and mix..
Am
Said you-re mistaken if you're thinking
F
that I haven't been caught
AmE
cold before
AmGCE
As you bit into your strawberry lace..
Am
And then offer me your attention
FAmE
in the form of a gobstopper
Am
Is all you had left
GCE
and it was going to waste..
(Chorus)
Am
Your past-times,
Am
consisted of the strange..
Am
And twisted and deranged..
Am
And I love that little game
Am
you had called Crying lightning
Am
And how you like to aggravate
the ice-cream man
on rainy afternoons
(Int.) Am...
Am
The next time that I caught
F
my own reflection
AmE
It was on it's way to meet you
AmGCE
Thinking of excuses to postpone..
Am
You never look like yourself
F
from the side
AmE
But your profile could not hide
AmG
The fact you knew I was approaching
CE
your throne..
AmF
With folded arms you occupied
Am
the bench like toothache
EAm
Stood and puffed your chest out
GCE
like you never lost a war..
Am
And though I tried so not
FAmE
to suffer the indignity of a reaction
Am
There was no cracks
GCE
to grasp or gaps to claw..
(Chorus)
F
And your past-times,
Dm
consisted of the strange
Am
And twisted and deranged
Am
And I hate that little game
FDm
you had called.. Crying lightning
Am
And how you like to aggravate
F
the icky man on rainy afternoons
Dm
Uninviting..
Am
But not half as impossible
as everyone assumes..
FDm
You are.. crying lightning..
(Int.) Am...
(Chorus)
F
And your past-times,
Dm
consisted of the strange
Am
And twisted and deranged
Am
And I hate that little game
FDm
you had called.. Crying lightning..
Am
Crying lightning..
FDm
Crying lightning..
Am
Crying lightning..
(Chorus)
F
Your past-times,
Dm
consisted of the strange
Am
And twisted and deranged
Am
And I hate that little game
FDm
you had called Crying..
