Standard (EADGBE)

 Your stitches are all out

 But your scars are healing wrong

 The helium balloon inside your room has come undone

 And it's pushing up at the ceiling

 And the flickering lights it cannot get beyond

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Everyone takes turns

 Now it's yours to play the part

 And they're sitting all around you

 Holding copies of your chart

 And the misery inside their eyes is

Synchronized and reflecting into yours

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Hold on!

One more time with feeling

Try it again, breathing's just a rhythm

Say it in your mind until you know that the words are right

This is why we fight

(Doo..doo-doo-doo-doo...doo...doo-ee-oo-ee-oo-ee-oo-ee-oo...)

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(Same as first verse/chorus for second verse/chorus)

You thought by now you'd be

So much better than you are

You thought by now they'd see

That you have come so far

And the pride inside their eyes

Would synchronize into a love you've never known

So much more than you've been show

Hold on!

One more time with feeling

Try it again, breathing's just a rhythm

Say it in your mind until you know that the

Words are right

This is why we fight

This is why we fight

(Doo..doo-doo-doo-doo...doo...doo-ee-oo-ee-oo-ee-oo-ee-oo... – same as before)