Just between you and me  (1989)    (video)

 

    G - C   - G - C   - G - C    - G - C (2x)

 

       C

1. Staring at each other with accusing eyes,

                     C

    keep our voices low, don‘t act surprised,

    F                                                     C

    if the word gets out, yeah, that‘s alright.

           C

    I know you‘re just looking for some sympathy,

                       C

    but listen, you don‘t know how it gets back to me,

                 F                                                 C 

    you‘re getting reckless, girl, but that‘s alright.

                                            Em                                  F

    Now don‘t you know that one cold word is gonna lead to another,

             Em                                     F

    and then we‘ll have nowhere to go.

 

               Am              G         F         C

Even if heaven and earth collide tonight,

             Am  G             F          C

we‘ll be all alone in a different light.

Am         G                    F                C

 I don‘t care what the world can‘t see,

      Dm                 C           F                   C

it‘s just between you and me, you and me.

 

+  C - F - C - F

 

              C

2. I see telltale signs of a love in decline,

                                 C

     there should be something to say, but we don‘t take the time,

F                                                           C

    and I don‘t understand, but that‘s alright,

                           C

    Now you can turn the page or you can tear me apart,

                           C

   don‘t make an open book out of my private heart,

F                                                                   C

    you should know better now, but that‘s alright.

                                     Em                                  F

    Don‘t you know that one cold word is gonna lead to another,

             Em                                      F

    and then we‘ll have nowhere to go.

 

               Am              G         F         C

Even if heaven and earth collide tonight,

             Am  G             F           C

we‘ll be all alone in a different light.

Am         G                    F                C

 I don‘t care what the world can‘t see,

      Dm                 C           F   Dm                    C          F

it‘s just between you and me, just betweenn you and me.

 

        Gm                         F

+  If we don‘t work this out, we won‘t recover,

             C                       G

    we‘ll lose this soulful love for one another,

                  Gm                       F                         G                              G7

    but with all I‘ve heard and all I‘ve seen, I‘m still lost in your mystery.

 

+  C - F - C

 

       C

3. Staring at each other with accusing eyes,

                     C

    keep our voices low, don‘t act surprised,

F                                               C

    if the word gets out, yeah, that‘s alright.

                                      Em                                  F   

    Don‘t you know that one cold word is gonna lead to another,

     Em                                      F

    then we‘ll have nowhere to go.

 

               Am              G         F         C

Even if heaven and earth collide tonight,

             Am  G             F          C

we‘ll be all alone in a different light.

Am         G                    F                C 

 I don‘t care what the world can‘t see,

      Dm                 C           F               

it‘s just between you and me.

 

+  repeat CHORUS

 

          Dm                  C          F

+  It‘s just between you and me.

 

+ C - F - C - F (6x, with different bits of lyrics) ….

 

    (Lou Gramm)