Come Close To Me Not Too Close

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C/G F  C/G F
    C/G
I’m all out of tickets I’ve no second chances
  F
I had too much wine and too many slow dances
           C/G
You’re the picture of youth and I’m no spring chicken
    F
But here we are kissing the plot it does thicken
C/G F
C/G
Two Midwesterners in the big city
      F
We’re both of us living the dream what a pity
     C/G
That we can’t just run away to Lisbon or Paris
F
Would traveling overseas thrill us or scare us
    C/G
Why does my mind gallop twelve steps ahead of me
     F
Like is there another man you want instead of me
    C/G
I’m playing at envy to fill up the space
      F
And distract from the things I don’t want to face
C/B             F
  Come close to me
C/B
Not too close
    F
I’m leaving here
  G
Tomorrow
     C/G
Your beauty it frightens me and also excites me
  F
I want to fall into you do lots of drugs with you
C/G
Walk around Chinatown and act like it’s China
   F
Forget about everything but your green eyes and I’m
C/G
Not to be trusted in these grave matters
   F
In love I am mad as the maddest of hatters
   C/G
No this isn’t love but it surely is something
  F
A nightmare in waiting or maybe a fun thing
C/B             F
  Come close to me
C/B
  Not too close
    F
I’m leaving here
  G
Tomorrow
    C/G
California is calling me I have to answer
  F
I told her I’d be back in mid-September
  C/G
I don’t have any pets no son no daughter
    F
But I have a garden my flowers need water
  C/G
I can’t bear the winters my blood is too thin for them
F
  Living out west has made me a weaker man
    C/G
But also a healthy one I’m still an optimist
     F
I’m a songwriter and sometimes a solipsist
C/G F C/G F
  C/G F
I worry I’m too used to living alone
    F
And when I am sad I don’t pick up the phone
  C/G
I lick my wounds quiet like the lion I am
            F
If you’ve a better suggestion I don’t give a damn
    C/G
Just let me be and let me see you
     F
Those times when you most would like to be you
    C/G
And I’ll do the same, masks firmly affixed
     F
We’ll cut out everything between and betwixt
C/B             F
  Come close to me
C/B
  Not too close
    F
I’m leaving here
  G
Tomorrow
C F C/G F
C/G
I’m not a prophet I’ve no crystal ball
     F
Late summer is written but there’s always the fall
     C/G
When you come out west a few leaves will be falling
     F
We’ll hit the beach and drive up Mulholland
C/G
Who the hell are you and how did we get here
   F
So quickly so rashly I daresay it’s like we're
    C/G
Two rocket ships headed straight for the moon
   F
It can’t be healthy to be flying this soon
     C/G
Will Ally regret ever introducing us or
     F
Will she want credit for exec producing us
C/G
What kind of a movie will this one be
     F
Wait do I have a problem with reality
    C/G
I’m saying too much I hope you don’t hate me
       F
But if I were you would I want to date me
  C/G
I can’t answer that I’ve no perspective
    F
I’m half self-aware and far from objective
C/B             F
  Come close to me
C/B
  Not too close
    F
I’m leaving here
  G      C
Tomorrow