Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 When I was younger

 I wish that I would have known better

 Better love makes a fat romance

That lasts for more than a shoe shine

 I’m older

 Took all the words of my mother

 Saying it could be worse, could be born with that disease

 Instead of catching it first

 So let’s go back

 To the first time that I met you

In your Chevy,

 With your hands stretched and me crying, screaming

“Mercy. Mercy.”

 But I know that I was put here

 To fight Vikings in the cold war,

 with my arms out in the front lines, singing

 “Dare me Dare me.”

 But these things take time, love

 These things take backbone

 And they’ll tell you what you want to hear

 'Cause they think it’s better, better

 But you better know how to point out the liars

 You’ve got to weigh your wars

 Make sure you’re not fighting for nothing, nothing

 Are you fighting for nothing, nothing?

 It feels like this world has

 Been growing slowly upside down

 Maybe I should move to China and straighten this mess out

 Maybe I’ll be a poet

 Watch all the sky for falling words

 And write about my grandma’s curtains

 Or the lady who put the Chinese buffet in her purse

 I’ve got my mouth, It’s a weapon

 It’s a bombshell, It’s a cannon

 I’ve got my words

 I won’t give them, Mercy Mercy

 Well these things take time, love

 These things take backbone

 And they’ll tell you what you want to hear

 'Cause they think it’s better, better

 But you better know how to point out the liars

 You’ve got to weigh your wars

 Make sure you’re not fighting for nothing, nothing

 Are you fighting for nothing, nothing?

During solo

2x

 I’ve got my words

 I hope they hurt you

 I hope they scar you

 I hope they heal you

 I hope they cut you open, make you see you’ve been warring

 For all the wrong reasons

Make you see that some things

Are worth bruising for

Make you see that your name

 Is your honor code

Make you see that your hands

 You’re accounted for

Pick and choose where your sweat

 And your blood will go

Make you see your life’s not

 To be lived alone

Run their spit through your hair

 You’re worth nothing

 Nothing

 These things take time, love

 These things take backbone

 And they’ll tell you what you want to hear

 'Cause they think it’s better, better

 But you better know how to point out the liars

 You’ve got to weigh your wars

 Make sure you’re not fighting for nothing, nothing

 Well these things take time, love

 These things take backbone

 And they’ll tell you what you want to hear

 'Cause they think it’s better, better

 But you better know how to point out the liars

 You’ve got to weigh your wars

 Make sure you’re not fighting for nothing, nothing

 Are you fighting for nothing, nothing?