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Sharpest Tool

Sabrina Carpenter, Short n’ Sweet, 2024

Writers: Sabrina Carpenter

Producers: John Ryan, Ian Kirkpatrick

Label: Island

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A 
 
Amaj7 
 
I know you’re not  
Badd4 
 
the sharpest tool in the shed.  
F#m 
 
We stacked decks, I met your best  
A 
friends.
 
Then a bird flies by and you forget.  
Amaj7 
 
I don’t hear a  
Badd4 
word,
 
’til your guilt creeps in.  
F#m 
 
On a Tuesday, send a  
A 
soft 
 
“hey,”

as if you really don’t recall the time

 
E 
We were goin’ right, then you took a left,
 
E/D# 
left me with a lot of things to second-guess.
 
A 
Guess I’ll waste another year on wonderin’ if,

if that was friendly, then I am into it.

 
I’m  
E 
lookin’ for an answer in-between the lines,
 
G#7 
lyin’ to yourself if you think we’rе fine
 
A 
You’re confused and I’m upsеt, but  
Am 
 
We never talk about it  
Amaj7 
 
We never talk about it  
Badd4 
 
We never talk about it  
F#m 
 
A 
 
Amaj7 
 
All the silence just makes it worse, really,  
Badd4 
 
’cause it leaves you so top-of-mind for me.  
F#m 
 
All the silence is just your strategy,  
Amaj7 
 
’cause it leaves you so top-of-mind for me.  
A 

We never talk about how you

found bugs at your friend’s house, always

 
Badd4 
made sure that the phone was face-down.

Seems like overnight,

 
I’m just the friend you know now.  
F#m 

We never talk it through how you

guilt-tripped me to open up to you.

 
Then you  
Amaj7 
logged out, leavin’ me dumbfounded, oh-oh
 
E 
We were goin’ right, then you took a left,
 
E/D# 
left me with a lot of things to second-guess.
 
A 
Guess I’ll waste another year on wonderin’ if,

if that was friendly, then I am into it.

 
I’m  
E 
lookin’ for an answer in-between the lines,
 
G#7 
lyin’ to yourself if you think we’rе fine
 
A 
You’re confused and I’m upsеt, but  
Am 
 
We never talk about it  
Amaj7 
 
We never talk about it  
Badd4 
 
We never talk about it  
F#m 
 
A 
 
E 
 
We never talk about how you  
E/D# 

found bugs at your friend’s house, always

 
A 
made sure that the phone was face-down.

Seems like overnight,

 
I’m just the friend you know now.  
E 

We never talk it through,

 
how you  
G#7 
guilt-tripped me to open up to you,
 
then you  
A 
logged out, leavin’ me dumbfounded,  
Am 
oh-oh
 
E 
 
We never talk about it  
E/D# 
 
A 

We never talk about it,

 
talk, talk, talk about it.  
E 

We never talk about it,

 
G#7 
talk, talk, talk about it.  
Amaj7 

We don’t talk about it,

 
we don’t talk a
Am 
bout it  
E