Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 you wrestle yourself to the ground

 you springboard and kick yourself in the mouth

 cause all of that drama, that embarrassed charade

 couldn't stop you or settle you down

 so you got back with your black hole

 and you don't care who's out there or who knows

 cause you're spent and you're sad

 cause you've bronzed it, it's your badge

 and you've fixed it to all your clothes

 every t-shirt and overcoat

 so it's with you through hot or cold

 but i would tear it from the cloth

 yeah, i would tear it from the cloth

grow up and knock it off

cause there's a world awake outside

with injustice and music and july, july

with history's arc,

with your family,

with art.

but it don't mean nothing

not to you, not tonight

you can't see past the length of your nose

the biggest problems, well you're sure they're your own

that girl you cut loose

those two friends that cursed you

and all that powder that you can't leave alone

and you say, you know, you know, you know

but i know that you don't, you don't, you don't

cause if you did, you'd really try

if you did, you'd really try to let all that die

Break

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so marry yourself to your work

and crowd your confusion with words

then round out your life with some records you like

while you bury your love in the dirt

cause it's endless, the ditch you can dig

you're stubborn, and you're prideful, and you're all over it

so i suggest you make sense of the time you've got left

so you don't end up back where you've been

 and you say you won't, you won't, you won't

 and i hope that you don't, you don't, you don't

 but if you mean it, then stand up and fight

 but if you mean it, then stand up and fight

i mean, it's only your life

 i mean it's only your life

 to fix or ruin

 to figure what to do with

 it's only your life

 to fix or ruin

 cause no one else is going to do it

 cause it's only your life