Key: F
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
F - 133211
C - x32010
Dm - xx0231
Bb - x13331
Gm - 355333
Am - x02210
Ab - 466544
Bbm - x13321
F/A - x032xx
C/E - 032xxx
C# - x46664
Ab/C - x365xx
Eb - x68886
Intro: F--Am-- x2
Verse 1:
F Am
Tell me off in a letter
Dm Am
Completely ignore me
F Am
Getting high off of saying
Dm
Why you don't adore me?
Bb C F Am Gm
Baby please I'm well versed
Bb F/A C Dm
In how I might be cursed
F F Am C C/E
I don't need it articula---ted
Interlude: F--Am-- x2
Verse 2:
F
Stand in line wasting
Am Dm C
All of your time just to hate me
F Am
Every dime gone to ways
Dm
You can find that might bait me
Bb F Am Gm Bb
And drag me down sight set proudly
F/A C Dm F
Bring me to the ground see
F Am Bbm Eb
You love to be somebody's enemy
Chorus 1:
Ab Ab/C C#
Maybe nobody loved you
Eb
when you were young
Ab Ab/C
Maybe boy when you
C# Eb C#
cry nobody ever comes
Bbm Fm
Will you try it once?
C# Ab/C
Give up the machine gun
C# Eb
Machine gun
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Post chorus: F--Am-- x2
Verse 2:
F
Locked and loaded
Am
You're practically
Dm C
floating away now
F Am
In your fortress you feel like
Dm
You're more or less safe now
Bb F Am Gm
But let me say I don't mean harm
Bb F/A C Bb F
Oh but ba--by you'd be charming
F Bbm
if you'd come undone
Eb
Get back where you started from
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Bridge:
Bbm C#
Never mind how you've rationed your time
Eb
And the battle is underway
Ab Ab/C C# Ab/C C#
May-----be times are gonna change
Bbm C#
Don't just hide in the silence behind
Eb F--Am-- x2
What you've really been trying to say
Verse 3:
F Am Gm Bb
What a skill baby aiming to kill me
F/A Bbm Eb
With words you don't mean
Chorus 2:
Ab Ab/C C#
Maybe nobody loved you
Eb
when you were young
Ab Ab/C
Maybe boy when you
C# Eb C#
cry nobody ever comes
Bbm Fm
Will you try it once?
C# Ab/C
Give up the machine gun
Bbm Fm
Will you try it once?
C# Ab/C
Give up the machine gun
Bbm Fm
Will you try it once?
C# Ab/C
Give up the machine gun
C# Eb
Machine gun
Outro: F--Am-- X4, F(hold)
