I go
to extremes
Bb - F - C (2x)
C F
1. Call me a joker, call me a fool,
F C
right
at this moment I'm totally cool.
C F
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a
knife,
F C
I feel like I'm in the prime
of my life.
Bb F C
Sometimes it feels like I'm
going too fast,
Bb D C G C
I don't know how long this
feeling will last, maybe it's only tonite.
- - - - - -
Bb F
C
Darling, I don't know why I go to extremes,
Bb
F C
too high or too low, there ain't no in-betweens.
Gm A7 Dm Fm
And if I stand or I fall, it's all or nothing at all,
C F C
darling, I don't know why I go to extremes.
C
F
2. Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm shot,
F C
sometimes
I don't know how much more I've got.
C F
Maybe I'm headed over the
hill,
F C
maybe
I've set myself up for the kill.
Bb F C
Tell me how much do you think you can take,
Bb
D C G C
until
the heart in you’s starting to break? Sometimes it
feels like it will.
- - - - -
- Bb F C
Darling, I don't know why I go to extremes,
Bb F C
too high or too low, there ain't no in-betweens.
Gm
A7 Dm Fm
You can be sure when I'm gone, I won't be out there too long,
C F C
darling, I don't know why I go to
extremes.
D Bb F C
+ Out of the darkness,
into the light, leaving the scene of the crime,
D Bb
F
either
I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right every time.
Am F C G
Sometimes I lie awake night after night, coming apart at the seams,
D Bb F C
eager
to please, ready to fight, why do I go to extremes ?
+ Bb - F - C (2x)
Gm A7 Dm Fm
+ And if I stand or I
fall, it's all or nothing at all,
C F C
darling,
I don't know why I go to extremes.
Bb F C
No, I don't know why I go to extremes,
Bb F C
too high or too low, there ain't no in-betweens.
Gm
A7
Dm
Fm
You can be sure when I'm gone, I won't be out there too long,
C F C
darling, I don't know why I go to
extremes.
Bb - F C
+ I don't know why, I
don't know why ! (3x) .....
(orig. & midi = no capo) (Billy Joel)