One Step Ahead

Intro F#m  A  E  B 

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How can you be so certain that you're the one flirting with fire 
           F#m 
If each choir needs preaching 
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And everyone's reaching into their pockets to see what they got 
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If not a lot has changed, but if everything's changing 
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Blame to see you sin, but no one sees face-to-face or eye-to-eye 
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This is not how it has to end 

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Who wants to be one step ahead 
           E             B 
And the first to the punchline? 
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Just one step ahead 
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First to the punchline 

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When it feels like it's all closing in, mmm 
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All the lines we won't cross, we bend instead 
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Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh 
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'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we say 
        E              D             F#m          G#m    A 
'Cause you never mind all the noise going through your head 

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How can I be so certain in my first impressions are mine? 
          F#m                  A                  E     
If each morning I wake up with circles around me that say 
        B                      A 
I got mine, I give in, I give up, it's too much 
  E                      B 
Come one, let's give 'em hell! 
             F#m 
No, why not love?, you say 
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Be too hard and that's not enough in this house of cards 

                F#m 
Who wants to be one step ahead 
         E               B 
And the first to the punchline? 
     F#m 
Just one step ahead 
     E              B   F#m 
The first to the punchline 

         A              G#m         F#m 
When it feels like it's all closing in, mmm 
         A              G#m           F#m 
All the lines we won't cross, we bend instead 
  A                 G#m                     F#m 
Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh 
        E             D               F#m 
'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we say 
      E             D                F#m 
And every line we cross, we say the same things that we say 
 E             D               F#m 
Every time we try, we play the same old games, it's all been said 
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Now, never mind all the noise going through your head