Originally in F, I play in G. The original includes a half-step key change that I’ve left out here.
Intro
| Gsus4 | G |
| x3 |
Vox on the low 5
| G | C/G | |
| The | window is open | so’s that door |
| Gmaj7 | C/G | |
| I | didn’t know they did that | anymore |
| G | G/B | D | Dsus4 | D | Dsus4 | D | |
| Who | knew we owned eight | thousand salad | pl | ates |
| G | C/G | |
| For | years I’ve roamed these | empty halls |
| Gmaj7 | C/G |
| Why have a ballroom | with no balls? |
| Em11 | Em11/D | A9/C# | A7 |
| Finally they’re | op’ning up the | gates |
| F#m7 | Gmaj7 | |
| There’ll be | actual real live | people |
| A | Bm |
| It’ll be totally | strange |
| F | D | |
| But | wow, am I so ready for this | change |
| G/B | C | |
| ‘Cause for the | first time in for | ever |
| D/F# | Gmaj9 | |
| There’ll be | music, there’ll be | light |
| Em | Bm | |
| For the | first time in for | ever |
| F | B7 | |
| I’ll be | dancing through the nig | ht |
| Em | Em7/D | |
| Don’t | know if I’m elated or gas | sy |
| C | A9 | |
| But I’m | somewhere in that | zone |
| Gm/A# | Csus2 | |
| ‘Cause for the | first time in for | ever |
| Dsus4 | G |
| I won’t be | alone |
| Gsus4 | G |
| x3 |
I can’t wait to meet everyone, what if I meet *the* one?
| G | C/G | |
| To | night imagine me | gown and all |
| Gmaj7 | C/G |
| Fetchingly draped a | gainst the wall |
| G | G/B | D | Dsus4 | D | Dsus4 | D | |
| The | picture of so | phisticated | grac | e |
| G | C/G | |
| I | suddenly see him | standing there |
| Gmaj7 | C/G | |
| A | beautiful stranger, | tall and fair |
| Em11 | Em11/D | A9/C# | A7 | |
| I | wanna stuff some | choco’late in my | face |
| F#m7 | Gmaj7 | |
| But then we | laugh and talk all eve | ning |
| A6 | Bm | |
| Which is | totally bi | zarre |
| F | D |
| Nothing like the life I’ve led so | far |
| G/B | C | |
| For the | first time in for | ever |
| D/F# | Gmaj9 | |
| There’ll be | magic, there’ll be f | un |
| Em | Bm | |
| For the | first time in for | ever |
| F | B7 | |
| I could be | noticed by some | one |
| Em | Em7/D | |
| And I | know it is totally | crazy to |
| C | A9 |
| Dream I’d find ro | mance |
| Gm/A# | Csus2 | |
| But for the | first time in for | ever |
| Dsus4 | G | |
| At l | east I’ve got a | chance |
| G | D/F# | E |
| → |
| E | Bm |
| Don’t let them in, | don’t let them see |
| A/C# | D | A | Am/C |
| → | Be the good girl you always | have to be |
| E | Bm |
| Conceal, | don’t feel |
| A/C# | D |
| Put | on a show |
| Am | E | |
| Make | one wrong move and everyone will | know |
The chords here are totally made up, to get me back to the original key,
but they capture the gestalt of this part.
| C/E | |
| But it’s only for to | day (it’s only for today) |
| Cm7b5 | |
| It’s agony to | wait (it’s agony to wait) |
| C#m7b5 | D9 |
| Tell the guard to open up the | gate |
| G/B | C | |
| For the | first time in for | ever, I’m getting |
(Don’t let them in, don’t let them see)
| D/F# | Gmaj7 |
| What I’m dreaming of |
(Be the good girl you always have to be)
| Em | Bm | |
| A | chance to change my lone | ly world |
(Conceal)
| F | B7 | |
| A | chance to find true love |
(Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know)
| Em | Em/D | |
| I | know it all ends to | morrow |
| C | A9/C# | |
| So it | has to be to | day |
| G/B | C | |
| ‘Cause for the | first time in for | ever |
| G/D | A7 | Cm7 | |
| For the | first time | in for | ever |
| Dsus4 | G |
| Nothing’s in my | way |