Say You Don't Mean Chords

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[Verse 1]
[Am]You [A]say [Am]Mati[A]sse[Am][A][Am]
and Picasso
scanned the Montparnasse sky
They envied Samson in Gaza
his blind all- seeing [C]eye
[Am]Not [Dm]to mention his outrageous hair
You [Am]say no decent painter [A]will set
a thing [Am]down straight
Only a breaker of boundaries
may be truly great
[C]Think Rimbau[Dm]d, think Baudelaire
[G]You say that I've misread
the venting of your spleen
[C]All the terrible

[Verse 2]
[F]things you've said
(You say you don't [G]mean,
you say you don't mean)
[C]The horrible [F]things you've done
(You say you don't [G]mean,
you say [C]you don't mean)
Haw [F]haw haw haw haw!!
(You say [G]you don't mean,
you say you don't mean)

[Verse 3]
Next up James [Am]Joyce and Sam Beckett
They scanned the Sandymount sky
All they saw was small potatoes
they'd bigger fish to [C]fry
Ain't it [Dm]always some revolt?
[Am]You say a decent writer always tells it slant
I should take my need for order
down to the assembly plant
Think Henry [Dm]Ford and Samuel Colt
[G]You say I've jumped the gun...
By raising [C]the umpteen
Terrible [F]things you've said
(Y[G]ou say you don't mean,
you say [C]you don't mean)
All the horrible [F]things you've done
(You say [G]you don't mean,
you say [C]you don't mean)
Haw [F]haw haw haw haw!!
(Y[G]ou say you don't mean,
you say [C]you don't mean)
[F]Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
(Y[G]ou say you don't mean,
you say you don't mean)

[Verse 4]
A renew[Dm]al slip from Time m[F]agazine
[Dm]On which you scrawled "try not to cling"
[C]Was your last communique

[Verse 5]
[C]You [G]say[Dm] you don't
mean to be mean
And that none of this means [F]anything
[Dm]But you [F]don't mean

[Verse 6]
a single thing you say
[G]You say[Am] Beefheart and Frank
Zappa scanned the Mojave sky
It seemed the mighty Mississippi
had left them high and dry
[C]While their all- night par[Dm]ties
disturbed the peace
You [Am]say no decent singer loves
the first path he takes
But waits for a real zinger the mother
of all snakes
Think [Dm]Sinatra, think Marvin Gaye
[G]You say you'll no longer shun the fact
you must come [C]clean

[Verse 7]
(About) the terrible [F]things
you've said
(You say you don't [G]mean,
you say [C]you don't mean)
All the horrible [F]things you've done
(Y[G]ou say you don't mean,
you say [C]you don't mean)
All the miserable [F]thoughts you thought
(Y[G]ou say you don't mean,
you say [C]you don't mean)
And the pitiful [F]games you play
(You say you [G]don't mean,
you say [C]you don't mean)
Haw haw [F]haw haw haw!!
(Y[G]ou say you don't mean, you
say [C]you don't mean)
[F]Yeah! Yeah! [G]Yeah! Yeah!
(You say you don't mean,
[C]you[F] say[G] yo[C]u d[F]on'[G]t mean)