Passiona(Chords)

	        
Intro: C Am F (x2) 

verse 1 
    C                                   Am     F   C                         Am      F         stop 
The people in the apartments across the street,    literally and metaphorically look down on me 
C 
Tangled in tenderness 
    Am           F 
Why do I have to live like this? 
      C 
I was tempted by your company 
    Am             F 
And you've already noticed me 
    C                           Am                  F 
I'm sorry for what I say when I don't know what I'm saying 
    C                                   Am              F 
And you don't have to play this cat and mouse game I am playing 
           C                      Am              F 
I'm just a pretty sad person in a quite surreal place 
            C                             Am                      F 
And I don't look up from my phone because I know I won't see your face 
           C      Am         F                 C stop 
And it's pathetic, it's also not a competition 

        C          F          Am                      G 
And I'm absolutely infinitely more scared of you than you are of me 
         C               F                 Am   stop 
And I've always been the one who cares too much 


verse 2 
      C                    F          F 
And I hope you're happy, I hope you've slept 
             Am                         G 
I'll try not write another record about the pain in my chest 
            C                   F                   Am   stop 
I'm just so glad I could be someone that you wanted 
            C                                 Am            F 
And I don't recognise these stars, I'm unfamiliar with this skyline 
      C                                   Am               F 
I was born and bred in bars, now nothing man-made is in my eyeline 
         C                                Am              F 
Turn and walk back to the house that they saved after the war 
         C 
And I am questioned once again 
               Am              F 
Get asked what I would do that for 
        C 
And our host tells me I'm sick 
         Am            F 
Tentatively hands me a spliff 
           C 
And I know he's forgotten my name 
      Am                F 
But I don't remember his 

        C          F          Am                      G 
And I'm absolutely infinitely more scared of you than you are of me 
         C               F                 Am   stop 
And I've always been the one who cares too much 


Hook 
       F              C            Am 
And oh god if only it was that easy to run 
                  G                            F 
From what I've achieved, I've let it define me 
                  C                 Am 
I'm having panic attacks on German TV 
                 G                        F 
This is not work ethic, it's survival technique 
                           C 
And there's nothing I can really do 
   Am                            G                               F 
So I sit in the band room, start fights to get attention from you 
                           C                         Am 
There is nothing I am qualified or smart enough to do 
                               G                               F G F 
Sit in the band room and start fights to get attention from you 

verse 3 
       C                              Am             F 
I walk off into the corn field, every cut's a new relief 
             C                         Am              F 
I might stop talking altogether if you stop talking to me 
           C 
And if I'm really supposed to be here 
               Am              F 
Why has no one come to that conclusion 
           C 
I'm out of place amongst the band boys 
        Am          F 
I can't suspend disillusion 
    C                                 Am                  F 
And music industry professionals yeah they can all go and fuck themselves 
    C                      Am                    F                    C 
And it's just me and Chris,   but he's stoned as shit and passing out 
                        Am               F    C  
That was okay once, for some reason it's sad now 
    Am               F   C        Am               F    C 
For some reason it's sad now, for some reason it's sad
	        

Written by The Smith Street Band