Key: F

Tuning: Standard EADGBe


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


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)