Keep It

KEEP IT by DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS Written by Kevin Archer and Jeff Blythe On ’Searching For The Young Soul Rebels’ (Parlophone 1980) (c) EMI Music Publishing Ltd. 1980 Chords used: F#: 244322 E7: x7675x D:  x5777x C#: x4666x E:  x7999x (x2) The world lives in your front room You’re sitting happy in gloom         Fate worries you you will not give her room You give credit for might inspiration and sight       But you miss the point you won’t join in the fight You think to use is to lose So you’re clinging pulling pleading Try to keep it safe Keep it cosy but it feels so out of place You’re feeling a loss but you’re not fit to make it You’re offered so much but you’re frightened to take it. A F# (x2) It never was really proved never was understood      But there really is no virtue in the good They’re shouting so loud that they’d do better to mine       You’re deafened and you cannot hear the rhyme But secrets in whispers pull you try to tempt you Try and keep it safe Keep it cosy but it feels so out of place You’re feeling a loss but you’re not fit to make it You’re offered so much but you’re not going to take it. You beg for help and advice how to handle your life     But you dare not move you cannot pay the price Chances slip you just shatter flatter forget what matters Spout your lines read all your books You hear the sounds miss all the hooks Your best is what you least understand You hate the graft won’t join the race You’re scared to scar your pretty face State now cos your head’s in the sand. D E (x6) (rpt. til fade)