D G

[Verse 1]
   D                                 G
If you or I don't say it who's going to
D                                       G
We can dance around it or dance for the truth
   A                          C         G
We sit here conjugating every variation through
               D   G
Of the verb to do

D G

[Verse 2]
    D                              G
Now I don't want to hang it all on you
   D                                     G
If pain must be allotted, I'll take some too
    A                                    C               G
But someone just say "Damn it, I need to be tonight with you"
            D   G
The verb to do

[Bridge]
         Em            A              Em         A
And if I don't seem to want it, if it won't show through
     Em     A               G             A              D   G
It's only because it has me paralysed for want of loving you

[Verse 3]
       D                                        G
So if you and I don't make it, well who's going to
D                                  G
Why can't we just state it bold as blue
     A                              C                      G
Look out over this city - the first word they're taught to use
                D
Is the verb to do