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 |