Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

2 measures instrumental

Verse

Oh, I don't know why people lie

 and I don't know why people die

EVerytime I see you shout at me

 cause of all of the things in the world that I can't see

Pre Chorus: (2nd verse, substitute words in parentheses)

And what I think goes on in this world

 for a mother and a father and a boy and a girl (kid)

 is that the more you earn the less you learn

 there's a fact in life where you (we) will burn

Chorus

And I never could believe it

 and I never could be true

 father, things that mean so much to me

 don't mean that much to you

 and I never could believe the way

 you told me I was wrong

 if I'm right and if you are simple sin

 for God's sake I was wrong

 2 measures instrumental:

Verse

Oh I don't know how I think this way

how you sit there looking at me all day

there's more to you than I can see

there's a shadow of a mother hanging over me

Pre chorus

Chorus

 4 measures instrumental:

Outro chorus

Oh I tell you out of heaven and I tell you out of hell

and I see your life in ruins, you're just earning that as well

and I cry out in my loneliness, well used to be your peace

but you'll never see my face again, oh I need words like these

Outro

 6 measures instrumental: