C                                      G
When the silent treatment gets so loud it's buzzing in my head
C                                      G
Your lips are moving, tells I should be somewhere else instead
F           C         G
Ooh, take a chance on today

[Chorus]
G                  Am
She said she was a mermaid
Am                 G     F
She said she liked horses
F                            Am
And then the silence finally breaks
Am                     F
You took all you could take
F              C
There's no one there

F
So you try to minimize it
Am
Then you try to compromise it
F                             G
No one really, really, really cares

[Verse 2]
C                                          G
In the city streets are filled with sheets of raindrops filled with bile
C                              G
The silence is so deafening it somehow makes me smile
F           C      G
Ooh, take a chance on tonight

[Chorus]
G                      Am
But she said she was a mermaid
Am                 G     F
She said she liked horses
F                  Am
She said she loved unicorns
Am                   G     F
I'd never bet on the dragon

F                        Am
When the silence finally breaks
Am                     F
You took all you could take
F      C
No one cares

F
And still you try to minimize it
Am
Then you try to compromise it
F                               G
No one's really, really, really there

[Verse 3]
C                                      G
When the ice melts off the lake and it reflects on what is fake
C                                            G
And you're skating somewhere, swimming I was losing every race
F               C            G
Ooh, one stolen moment might turn out right

[Chorus]
G                  Am
She said she was a mermaid
Am                 G      F
She said she liked horses
F                Am
Never bet on the unicorn
Am               G      F
Never bet on the dragon

F                        Am
When the silence finally breaks
Am                       F
You find out just what's fake
F              C
There's no one there

F
So you try to minimize it
Am
Then you try to compromise it
F                                   G
Cause no one really, really, really cares