Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Variations of G#m (continued into verse if desired)

 Your game, your lovely game

 Is like pain and suffering

 Your fame, your newly found fame

 Is like repeating history

Prechorus

 You know that keeping me around

 Makes me just quiver at the sound

 Wish I could feed their open mouths

 With something worth it

Chorus

 Where is your backbone?

 Cause you’re looking very flimsy

 I'm breaking down your paper wall

 Where is your backbone?

 If you hear it sing it with me

Everybody take the fall

 You look so sound asleep

 I can't believe

 That your backbone's missing

 And you never had a clue at all

Believe, no I can't believe

 How little all this means to me

 You'll see, you'll just have to see

 For yourself, the playback is deafening

Prechorus, Chorus

 Inst: , , , 2x

You could've been something

You could've been something memorable

I should've said something

I should've said...

 Inst: , , , ,

 Where is your backbone?

 Cause you’re looking very flimsy

 I'm breaking down your paper wall

 Where is your backbone?

 If you hear it sing it with me

Everybody take the fall

 You look so sound asleep

 I can't believe

 That your backbone's missing

 And you never had a clue at all

 You look so sound asleep

 I can't believe

 That your backbone's missing

 And you never had a clue at all