Standard (EADGBE)

I'm a kid in a candy store

I'm a bull in a china shop

I'm a tired old metaphor

  For everything you can't afford

  And everything you can't afford to be

I'm a public embarrassment

I'm a bottle of diet poison

I'm a walking advertisement

  For everything I never meant

  And everything I never meant to be

(Quietly)

I can't hear a thing

(Loudly)

 Cause I've stopped listening

I'm the reason I don't go out

I'm afraid I might tell me something

I'm the shadow of every doubt

I'm the product this song's about

I'm the product this song's about to be

(Quietly)

I can't hear a thing

(Loudly)

 Cause I've stopped listening

I can't hear a thing

 Cause I've stopped listening

Every morning

Since I was born

  It's been hard to look in the mirror

  And see my face for the horns

All the fun that the law allows

All the fun but with half the meaning

Come on over, I'll show you how

If you lived here you'd be home by now

If you still lived here you'd be home now with me

(Quietly, progressively louder)

I can't hear a thing

 Cause I've stopped listening

(Loudly)

I can't hear a thing

 Cause I've stopped listening

Song ends on G