Intro: E Dbm A B
 
Verse 1:
E                           Dbm
Make sure nobody sees you leave
                                    A
Hood over your head, keep your eyes down
                                 Abm
Tell your friends you're out for a run
          B
You’ll be flushed when you return
E                         Dbm
Take the road less traveled by
                              A
Tell yourself you can always stop
                          Abm
What started in beautiful rooms
          B
Ends with meetings in parking lots
 
Chorus:
Abm                        A
And that's the thing about illicit affairs
    B                        E
And clandestine meetings and longing stares
     Abm                A
It's born from just one single glance
       B
But it dies and it dies and it dies
  E
a million little times
 
Verse 2:
E                       Dbm
Leave the perfume on the shelf
                             A
That you picked out just for him
                       Abm
So you leave no trace behind
         B
Like you don’t even exist
E                           Dbm
Take the words for what they are
                       A
a dwindling, mercurial high
                 Abm
a drug that only worked
    B
The first few hundred times
 
Chorus:
Abm                        A
And that's the thing about illicit affairs
    B                        E
And clandestine meetings and  stolen stares
     Abm                A
They show their truth one single time
       B
But they lie and they lie and they lie
  E
a million little times
 
Verse 3:
                    E
And you wanna scream
E
Don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby"
Dbm
Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me
A                       Abm                   B
You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else
E
Don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby"
Dbm
Look at this idiotic fool that you made me
A                     Abm                         B
You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else
        Dbm  E   A
And you know damn well
                 B
For you, I would ruin myself
E
a million little times