Verse 1
Em
(Hu)
D
How can you sleep while
C D
I’m wide awake?
C D
I took some pills and a blanket
Am C Em
when it starts to ache
(Hu)
D
Is it wrong to think you’re a
C
‘she might be’?
D
When the world decides and chose
Em C
that we’re not meant to be
Verse 2
G
Em
C I broke you or do I set you free?
D Am
Why do you love someone that
C G
you know I will never be?
Em
C I hurt you or do I let you be?
(C I let you be?)
D Am
Why do I love someone that
won’t see all the best in me?
C Em
(Best in me)
Now I know you’re just another
G
raft in the sea
D Am
Floating in time just to
C
end up leaving me
D Em
Flip my switch (Hu)
Verse 3
D
(Hu) How can you
sleep while
C D C
I’m wide awake?
D Em
I took some pills and a blanket when
C D Em
it starts to ache
(Hu)
D
Is it wrong to think you’re a
C
‘she might be’?
D
When the world decides and chose that
Em
we’re not meant to be
C
Verse 4
Em
‘Why’ is the only one word that
goes through my mind
D
(Through my mind)
Am
Solidifies all the things that you said
C Em
the other day ‘I’m broken’
I don’t know If I’m gon’ make
G D G
it through the day
D Am
Used to wake up seeing
C
your face next to me
Flip my switch
D Bm D
Verse 5
Em
(Hu)
D C
How can you sleep while I’m wide awake?
D Em
I took some pills and a blanket when
C D Em
it starts to ache
(Hu)
D
Is it wrong to think you’re a
C
‘she might be’?
D Em
When the world decides and chose that
C Em G Em G
we’re not meant to be
Bm
Lead me to the
Verse 6
end of
Em Am Em
the tunnel
C G Em
I’m lost (Uh)
G D
I used to call you when it’s dark
C
When I fall apart
When there’s nothing left to say
When everything is grey
Em
Begging you to stay
Verse 7
D
(Hu) How can you sleep
C
while I’m wide awake?
D Em
I took some pills and a blanket when
C
it starts to ache
Em
(I took some pills and a blanket)
D
Is it wrong to think you’re a
C
‘she might be’?
D
When the world decides and chose that
Em
we’re not meant to be
C
(We’re not meant to be)
(We’re not meant to be)
Taxi! Taxi!
Lady cab driver, can you take me for a ride?
Don't know where I'm going because I don't know where I've been
So just put your foot on the gas, let's drive
Lady, don't ask questions
Promise I'll tell you no lies
Trouble winds are blowing, I'm growing cold
Get me out of here, I feel I'm going to die
Lady cab driver, roll up your window fast
Lately trouble winds are blowing hard, and I don't know if I can last
Lady, I'm so lonely
I know that's not the way to be
Don't want isolation, but the air it makes me cold
Drive it, baby, drive it, drive this demon out of me
Take me to your mansion
Honey, let's go everywhere
Help me, girl, I'm drowning, mass confusion in my head
Will you accept my tears to pay the fare?
Lady cab driver, roll up your window fast
Lately trouble winds are blowing hard, and I don't know if I can last
Lady cab driver, can you take me for a ride?
Lady cab driver, roll up your window fast
Lately trouble winds are blowing hard, and I don't know if I can last
This is for the cab you have to drive for no money at all
This is for why I wasn't born like my brother, handsome and tall
This is for politicians who are bored and believe in war
This - Yeah, that's for me, that's who that one's for
This is for discrimination and egotists who think supreme
And this is for whoever taught you how to kiss in designer jeans
That one's for- That one's for- for you have to live
This one's for the rich, not all of 'em, just the greedy -
The ones that don't know how to give
This one's for Yosemite Sam and the tourists at Disneyland
And this one- ooh! Yeah - That's the one
That's for- that's for the- the creator of man
This is for the sun, the moon, the stars, the tourists at Disneyland
This is for the ocean, the sea, the shore
This is for- and that's for you, and that's who that one's for
This is for the women, so beautifully complex
This one's for love without sex
This is for the wind that blows no matter how fast or slow
Not knowing where I'm going
This galaxy's better than not having a place to go
And now I know (I know)
Lady cab driver
Lady cab driver
Lady cab driver
Lady cab driver
Lady cab driver
Lady cab driver
Lady cab driver
From the album
1999
Prince · 2019 · Track 0