Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 Tell me now if you came sneaking up behind

Would you know me and see behind the smile?

I can change like colors on a wall

 Hoping no-one else will find what lies beneath it all

I think I hide it oh so well

Chorus

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Stepping out, everyone can see my face

 All the things I can’t erase

 From my life

 Everybody knows

Standing out so you won’t forget my name

 That’s the way we play this game

 Of life

 Everybody knows

Looking through the crowd I search for something else

But every time I turn around I run into myself

Here I stand consumed with my surroundings

Just another day of everybody looking

 I swore they’d never see me cry

 They’d never see me cry

Chorus

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You say I’ll pay the price

That’s a chance that I’ll take

Though you may think I’m telling lies

But I just call it getting by

Chorus

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Everybody knows (everybody knows)

I’m just barely getting by (everybody knows)