Illicit Affairs

[G] [Em] [C] [Bm] [D]

 

[G]Make sure nobody sees you leave

[Em]Hood over your head, keep your eyes [C]down

Tell your friends you're out for a run [Bm]

You’ll be [D]flushed when you return

[G]Take the road less traveled by

[Em]Tell yourself you can always [C]stop

What started in beautiful rooms [Bm]

Ends with [D]meetings in parking lots

 

[Bm]And that's the thing about i [C]llicit affairs

And [D]clandestine meetings and longing stares

It's [G]born from just one [C]single glance

But it [D]dies and it dies and it dies

A m [G]illion little times

 

[G]Leave the perfume on the shelf

[Em]That you picked out just for [C]him

So you leave no trace behind [Bm]

Like you [D]don’t even exist

[G]Take the words for what they are

[Em]A dwindling, mercurial [C]high

A drug that only worked [Bm]

The [D]first few hundred times

 

[G]And that's the thing about [C]illicit affairs

And [D]clandestine meetings and stolen stares

They [G]show their truth one [C]single time

But they [D]lie and they lie and they lie

A m [G]illion little times

 

[G]Don't call me "kid, " don't call me "baby"

[Em]Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me

[C]You showed me colors you know I can't see with [D]anyone else

[G]Don't call me "kid, " don't call me "baby"

[Em]Look at this idiotic fool that you made me

[C]You taught me a secret

language I can't speak with [D]anyone else

And you [Em]know [C]damn [G]well

For you, I would [D]ruin my [G]self

A m [G]illion little times