TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
(C#m7)Why should I (B)play this (E)game of pre (A)tend?
Re (C#m7)mem ber ing (B)through a (E)sec ond hand (A)sor row
(C#m7)Such a great (B)son and (E)won der ful (A)friend
Oh, (B)don’t the tears just pour?
(C#m7)I could curl (B)up and (E)hide in my (A)room
Re (C#m7)There in my (B)bed still (E)sob bing to (A)mor row
(C#m7)I could give (B)in to (E)all of the (A)gloom
But (B)don’t the tears just pour?
(B)tell me (A)tell me what (B)for
(F#m7)Why should I have a heav y (C#m7)heart?
(A)Why should I start to break in (B)piec es?
(F#m7)Why should I go and fall a (C#m7)part for (B)you?
(Emaj7)Why
should I play the griev ing girl and (B)lie
Say ing that I miss you and that (C#m)my world has gone (Asus2)dark with out your light?
(F#m7)I will sing no (F#)req ui em
to (C#m7)night
I (C#m7)gave you the world, you (E)threw it a way
(C#m7)Leav ing these (B)bro ken (E)piec es be (A)hind you
(C#m7)Ev ’ry thing (B)wast ed, (E)noth ing to (A)say
So (F#m7)I can sing no (E)req ui em I (C#m7)hear your voice and (E)feel you (A)near.
With in these (B)words I (E)fi nal ly (A)find you
And (C#m7)now that I know that you are still (F#)here
(A)I will sing no (B)req ui em to night (F#m7)Why should I have a heav y (C#m7)heart?
(A)Why should I say I’ll keep you (B)with me?
(F#m7)Why should I go and fall a (C#m7)part for (B)you?
(E)Why
should I play the griev ing girl and (B)lie
Say ing that I miss you and that (C#m)my world has gone (Asus2)dark with out your light?
(F#m7)I will sing no (F#)req ui em
to (B)night ’Cause when the (Emaj7)vil lians (Asus2)fall, the king doms nev er (B)weep
No one (Emaj7)lights a can dle to re mem ber No, no one (Emaj7)mourns at all when they lay them down to (B)sleep
So don’t (D)tell me that I (A)did n’t have it (E)right
Don’t (D)tell me that it (A)was n’t black and (E)white
Af ter all you put me through
Don’t (D)say it was n’t true
That (F#m7)you were not the mon ster that I (Asus2)knew.
’Cause (Emaj7)I
can not play the griev ing girl and (B)lie
Say ing that I miss you and that (C#m)my world has gone (Amaj9)dark...
SONG INFO
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key
- C#
- Tempo
- 78 BPM
- Plays
- 4
- Category
- Musical/Soundtrack
- Artist
- Pasek & Paul