Intro: C#m A (4x)
Verse 1:
E B/D# E
We'll keep calm and carry on
F#m
With good intentions!!
E B/D#
They'll prescribe
E
the rights and wrongs
F#m
Until we're perfect!!!
C#m A C#m
So maybe one day we'll be safe
A C#m
In control and full of grace
A E
Never making a mistake
F#m
So flawless!!!
Verse 2:
E B/D# E
Cut us deeper to the core
F#m C#m
We won't feel a thing!!!
B/D# E
Imperfections weighing more!!!
F#m
Repressing difference!!!
C#m A C#m
I wish this wasn't all so hard
A C#m
To be yourself and not on guard
A E
To stop the racing in your heart
F#m
We'll fight it!!
C#m
Put me under
Ab/C B/D# E
Now I'm powerless
Ab/C C#m
I'll take it all
Ab/C C#m
I'll Take it all
Ab/C C#m
I'll take it
F#m A Abm
I can't breathe without you
C#m
You won't trust me
Ab/C B/D# E
I won't trust you too
Ab/C C#m
Bring me back and
Ab/C C#m
Bring me back and
Ab/C C#m
Bring it
F#m A Abm
Medicate me
Verse 3:
E B/D# E
Hide me deeper in my shed
F#m E
Until I'm all a---lone!!!
B/D#
I'm hearing voices!!!
E
in this sound!!!
F#m
Hallucinating!!!
C#m A C#m
I could have sworn I heard it too
A C#m
A sudden beautiful adieu
A E
It's telling me what I should do
F#m
I follow!!!
C#m
Put me under
Ab/C B/D# E
Now I'm powerless
Ab/C C#m
I'll take it all
Ab/C C#m
I'll Take it all
Ab/C C#m
I'll take it
F#m A Abm
I can't breathe without you
C#m
You won't trust me
Ab/C B/D# E
I won't trust you too
Ab/C C#m
Bring me back and
Ab/C C#m
Bring me back and
Ab/C C#m
Bring it
F#m A Abm
Me-di-cate me now!!!
Breakdown: C#m E B/Eb C#m E
Bridge:
B/D# F#m Abm
As I'm turning into!!!
A
disreflection!!!
C#m E B/D#
You!!
C#m E B/D#
can't slow me!!!
F#m Abm A
My body and my mind!!!
F#m Abm A A
My emotions and my pride!!!
Interlude: C#m A (2x)
Outro:
C#m
The simplest things
A
became the hardest part now
C#m
The easiest parts have
A
taken all my dreams
E F#m
I'm afraid
C#m A
I'll never be okay
I'm afraid
C#m
I'm scared I
A
can't be happy
E F#m
I'm afraid
C#m
This silence you feel is
A
not a way to be sincere
(I'm afraid)
C#m
And it's a way to cope
A way to heal (I'm scared
I can't be happy)
A
But not for me when
E F#m
I can't feel (I'm afraid)
C#m
The subtleties that
make me want to
(I'll never be okay)
A
Be alive and not a
statue (I'm afraid)
C#m
Breathe the air
Be me to talk to (I'm scared
I can't be happy)
A E
I'm afraid I'll never
F#m C#m
be the same