When playing the verses, lift your index finger off the G string for the D and G6add9 chords.
D5 G69
D5 G69
Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore
D5 G69
And I'm young & I'm strong But I feel old & tired, overfired.
D5 G69
And I've been poked & stoked, it's all smoke, there's no more fire
A5
Only desire
E5
For you, whoever you are
D5
For you, whoever you are
G6add9
You say my time here has been some sort of joke
D5 G69
That I've been messing around some sort of incubating period
D5 G5
For when I really come around I'm cracking up
E5
And you have no idea
G5 D5
No idea how it feels to be on your own
G5 D5
In your own home with the fucking phone
G5
And the mother of gloom
D5
In your bedroom
G5
Standing over your head
E5 D5
With her hand in your head, with her hand in your head
G5 D5
I will not pretend I will not put on a smile
G5 A5
I will not say I'm all right for you when all I wanted was to be good
G5 D5
To do everything in truth, to do everything in truth
D5 G69
oh I wish, I wish, I wish I was born a man
D5 G5
so I could learn how to stand up for myself
D5
like those guys with guitars
G5
I've been watching in bars
D5 G5
who've been stamping their feet to a different beat
E5 D5
to a different beat, to a different beat
G5 D5
I will not pretend I will not put on a smile
G5 A5
I will not say I'm all right for you when all I wanted was to be good
G5 D5
To do everything in truth, to do everything in truth
G5
you bloody motherfucking asshole
D5
you bloody motherfucking asshole
G5
you bloody motherfucking asshole
D5
you bloody motherfucking asshole
G5
you bloody motherfucking asshole
D5
you bloody
G5 D5
I will not pretend I will not put on a smile
G5
I will not say I'm all right for you,
A5
for you, whoever you are
G5
for you, whoever you are
D5
for you, whoever you are