Standard (EADGBE)
Intro x3
Verse 1
Don't give me no comic book sad looks no more,
please don't use those same excuses you've used before,
mmmh mhhmmm, mmmh mhh, mmmh mmmh
you told yourself so many times it's okay,
so be good to try, but you just don't know how to come back down,
Chorus
and now you beat me up and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
Solo
Verse 2
well how about those people i know, but you know the ones i mean,
not so good, not so bad, only know what they have, and they have only what they've seen, ohh
them mediocre bad guys don't let them bring you down,
they can't be defeated, and you know, they're never going to come around,
Chorus
they just, beat me up and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
Outro x3
Verse 3
sometimes included in live version)
well, somebody's something was left in the room, and now that it's gone of course we assume,
that somebody else needed something so bad, that they took everything somebody had,
somebody saw him jump yeah but nobody saw him slip, i guess he lost a lot of hope
and then he lost his grip,
and now he's lying in the freeway in the middle of this mess, I guess we lost
another one, just like the other one,
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| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note