One Step Ahead

[Intro] F#m  A  E  B

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

                 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
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          G#m    A
'Cause you never mind all the noise going through your head

( E  B  F#m  G#m  A )
( E  B  G#m )

          F#m                  A                  E     B
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
         A                   E                       B
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
      E                 D                        F#m
Now, never mind all the noise going through your head