Standard (EADGBE)

 Take Your Cautionary Tales

 and take your incremental gains

 and all the sycophanic games

 and throw it all away

burn your tv in your yard

 and gather 'round it with your friends

 and warm your hands upon the fire

 and start again

 take the story you've been sold

 the lies that justify the pain

 the guilt that weighs upon your soul

 and throw 'em all away

 tear up the calendar you bought

 throw the pieces to the sky

 confetti falling down like rain

 like a parade to usher in your life

 take the dreams that should've died

 the ones that kept you lying awake

 when you should've been alright

 and throw 'em all away

 With the time I waste on a life I never had

 I could?ve turned myself into a better man

Solo

Verse)

 ?cos there ain?t nothing you can buy

 there is nothing you can save

 to fill the hole inside your heart

 so throw it all away

 won?t fill the hole inside your heart

help me to empty this house

the wool I?ve gathered all these days

and thought I couldn?t do without

 and throw it all away