The Acrobat

Intro: C  F  C 


 
             G                   F 
Her mother's feet never left the ground 
      G                          C 
Never dared to leave that little town 
                                       F 
That's why she ain't afraid of looking down 
    G                                C 
But I bet it gets lonely up there in clouds 
 

 
                   G               C           F 
When you're barely hanging on it's easy to let go 
    Dm             G                C 
And wait for the applause after the show 
                                          F 
Turns out the fortune teller doesn't even know 
    G                                         C 
How to land the highs and make it through the lows 
 

 
           F                 C 
She's good at making herself smaller 
        G               Am 
Good at flying, good at bending 
F               C 
Been pretending for so long 
       G                  F 
She forgets that she's pretending 
                      C            G               Am 
Breaking herself into pieces she's never gonna get back 
F                  G  C    F 
There goes the acrobat 
 

 
C                                      F 
The circus ain't all its cracked up to be 
          G                                       C 
There's a cost to freedom, and God knows it ain't free 
                                                    F 
She stares in the mirror hanging above the bathroom sink 
    C 
And wonders what she'd look like if she could breath 
 

 
           F                 C 
She's good at making herself smaller 
        G               Am 
Good at flying, good at bending 
F               C 
Been pretending for so long 
       G                  F 
She forgets that she's pretending 
                      C            G               Am 
Breaking herself into pieces she's never gonna get back 
F               G     C 
 There goes the acrobat 
 

 
Am            G                 F                              Am 
Will she ever give up trying to catch the hand that catches her 
                 G                  F 
And stop bending for the world that never ever bends for her? 
 

 
           F                 C 
She's good at making herself smaller 
        G               Am 
Good at flying, good at bending 
F                      C 
Been pretending for so long 
            G                 Am 
She doesn't know why she's pretending 
            F                 C              G                       F 
She'd break every bone in her pretty body if love really worked like that 
                     D   G  C 
Yeah, there goes the acrobat 
      F      G 
Yeah, I know the acrobat 
 

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