COME CLOSE TO ME (NOT TOO CLOSE) - Josh Radnor

This song is way more dramatic (and only slightly shorter) than the relationship that inspired it. Chords: C/G -- F for the verses, C/B -- F -- G on the chorus. I’m all out of tickets I’ve no second chances I had too much wine and too many slow dances You’re the picture of youth and I’m no spring chicken But here we are kissing the plot it does thicken Two Midwesterners in the big city We’re both of us living the dream what a pity That we can’t just run away to Lisbon or Paris Would traveling overseas thrill us or scare us Why does my mind gallop twelve steps ahead of me Like is there another man you want instead of me I’m playing at envy to fill up the space And distract from the things I don’t want to face Come close to me Not too close I’m leaving here Tomorrow Your beauty it frightens me and also excites me I want to fall into you do lots of drugs with you Walk around Chinatown and act like it’s China Forget about everything b
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