God Help The Girl

Intro: B E

B                                G#m
There is no way, I'm looking for a boyfriend
E           F#                   B
There is no way, I'm looking for a seat

D#m        G#m             
I need to save some dough
F#              B
I'm a working girl, you know
E                            F#
I'll fend the tension off, I keep to myself

B                                 G#m
I love my room, I'm getting used to sleeping
E             F#                 B
Some nights I really like to lie awake

D#m        G#m  
I hear the midnight birds
F#           B
The message in their words
E                            F#
The dawn will touch me in a way a boy could never touch
F#                                  B
That promise never meant so much to me

B
You love being whined
                  G#m
I'm going to be contrary
B                                       G#m       G#
Backward at school, I rode from right to left
E              F#
Teacher never cared for me,
B               G#m
Preacher said a prayer for me:
E                                     F#
"God help the girl, she neds all the help she can get"


B                                 G#m
I sit for hours just waiting for his phone call
E              F#                  B
I'll leave the chocolate hidden in the fridge

D#m         G#m  
I'll play his messages
F#           B
Analyse his entonation
E                              F#
Please stop me there, I'm even boring myself

B                                G#m
I think of him when I'm doing my dishes (do the dishes, do the dishes)
E           F#                     B
I think of him while looking in the sink 

D#m           G#m
This ain't no play-on words
F#            B
My love for him's absurd
E                          F#
If he gave me a sign, I'd think about it for a week
F#                                     B
I'd build it up and the I'd turned him down,

B
You love being whined
                  G#m
I'm going to be contrary
B                                       G#m       G#
Backward at school, I rode from right to left
E              F#
Teacher never cared for me,
B               G#m
Preacher said a prayer for me:
E                                     F#
"God help the girl, she neds all the help she can get"