Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Scrounging through the shit to find a place to call home

 To settle in, set up shop, pull out your wares and play

To sing a song to you, for you and for me

 I need to remember what I gain and why I'm here

 The sign says gents but I don’t see none here

 The sign says ladies but I'm a lady feeling ‘lone

All I need to survive is feeling threatened

Chorus

 I don’t want you to make me jaded

 I don’t want to give you the power to make me old

Verse 2

 I do it because I wanna have my say, give it up for you

 But you choose to throw it back at my face with your distortions.

I feel sorry for you, but you feel sorry for me

 Seeing that power sometimes lies in the hands of the weakest, the lowest kind

The power to make me scream when I only want to

Whisper

The power to make me punch when I only want to caress

You

Chorus

 I don’t want you to make me jaded

 I don’t want to give you the power to make me raise my

Voice

 I don’t want you to make me jaded

 I don’t want to give you the pleasure of seeing me cry

Bridge

 I just want to find a beautiful face

 And remember why I am standing here

 I just want to be at that beautiful place

 And remember why we're standing here.

Heeeey – no, no.

Verse 3

 I speak what I feel and then it's judged by you

 But when I judge you, you get pissed off

 I'm no different to you

 I do have the time to listen, I have the time to care

 When I've had my say I'm happy to listen to yours

Just grant me the time to let you have your monies worth

I'm so jumpy, I'm on edge, I'm ready to bite at your chance

Chorus

 I don’t want you to make me jaded

 I don’t want to give you the pleasure of stripping my

 colours to your grey

 I don’t want you to make me jaded

 I don’t want to give you the power to make me hard and

Cold

Bridge

 I just want to find that beautiful face

 And remember why I am standing here

 I just want to be at that beautiful place

 And remember why we're standing here.

 And remember why we’re standing here.