F#m 
Say what you want and leave your shyness home, 
Do what you want and write a little poem. 
Leave it for her and live another day, 
And you should *leave* it for her the girl around the way. 

F#m 
Write down a list of things you want to do, 
Leave it in work because you want to live a little, 
Pick up the girl in someone's borrowed mini, 
Take her to dinner, use her boyfriend's money. 

A                 C# 
Hey lady, put the phone down, 
       F#m 
Cancel all operations, 
           D 
Tell your friends to cool it 
     A                       C# 
Your cover's blown I want to see you alone 
       F#m 
Cancel all operations 
          D 
Tell your friends to cool it, 
     A               C# 
Your cover's blown 

F#m 
Planning a break is such a tricky thing 
Because you move to the country, she comes back again 
And then you move to the city but she goes abroad 
Is she telling you something, is she getting bored? 

F#m 
I'll make a rough plan to sleep around, 
I'm in a rut I need a change, 
I'm a lazy rat if I am honest 
My bold change of tack will fade out with the summer I've got no appetite and all the 
girls are bummers 

Em              G 
My baby doesn't look at me 
          A 
The way I want her to look 
            G  F#m    A 
She doesn't comprend 
Em               G 
My baby's got it going on 
            A                             G     F#m 
She's got a friend hid in every street in this town 
  G                          C B Am Abm 
           Am 
I want to go out but there's nobody home I'll go on my own 
Am 
Thus starts the lonely walking 
Dm                              E                    Am 
There's always too much talking I should have stayed home 
Am 
She starts her cool caressing 
Dm 
The kid, she starts undressing 
E                  Am G F E 
I should've stayed home 
Am 
The dj's picking up speed 
Dm 
That's something I just don't need 
E                  Am 
I should've stayed home 
Am 
The gossip's bearing down on me, 
Dm                           E 
The kids are pairing off in front of me. 
                    Am G F E 
I should've stayed home 
E                   Am G F E 
I should've stayed home 
                 Am 
I think I'll go home 

Am Em G D 

Em 
Listen lady, put your phone down 
       C 
Cancel all operations 

Tell your friends to cool it. 
     G                       B 
Your cover's blown I need to see you alone 
       Em 
Cancel all operations 
           C 
Tell your friends to cool it 
G                           B 
Listen lady, leave your phone down 
       Em 
Cancel all operations 
           C 
Tell your friends to cool it 
      G                      B 
Your cover's blown I need to see you alone 
       Em 
Cancel all operations 
          C 
Tell your friends to cool it 

(Continues with G, B, Em, and C until the last verse) 


Hey lady, meet my mum and dad 
You're a strange aberration 
In this land of potted plants and boxlike houses 
Where the girls like mouses 
Breathe a long sigh of resignation 
You resign your self to keep on growing 
Like the seeds you're sowing 
You're a strange apparition In this land of grammar schools and gala days 
The ladies set in their ways 
You had a long conversation With a kid next door 
He's a little slow 
But in your favour, it shows 
Cancel all operations 
Tell your friends to move out to the sticks. 

Em                     B 
Listen lady, leave the boy home 
       C 
Cancel all operations 
          B                                Em 
Tell your friends there's more to you than this.