D                   Dmaj7
Here we are at this impasse again
D                      Dmaj7
the same old argument, the same old end
G                    Gm
You're looking at me with those angry eyes
          D           Dmaj7
You say, "Why, do you always have to be right?"
D
well let me tell you (spoken)



D                    Dmaj7          
Sittin’ there on the bus to school
D                     Dmaj7        
Little Sallie tellin' us that her poor old 
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dog had died and gone to Heav'n in the sky

D                            Dmaj7
I turned around and told her that wasn't true
D                            Dmaj7                  
It's just a story that your parents tell you to
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hide the truth and I made her cry
G            Gm               D       
Because I've always had to be right


Em                 A
This is not just a random event
Em              A
you can ask anybody I've met in my life
Em              A
I can't just forgive and forget
G               A
Yeah I've always had to be right


D                       Dmaj7
D                       Dmaj7


D                    Dmaj7
I remember back when I was 10
D                    Dmaj7                      
my sister broke a vase I got pinned with her 
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crime, my mother thought that I lied

D                    Dmaj7
So she held a bar of soap to my mouth
D                        Dmaj7
told me she was going to wash the lies out
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but out of spite I took a bite
G            Gm                 D
Because I've always had to be right


Em                 A
This is not just a random event
Em              A
you can ask anybody I've met in my life
Em              A
I can't just forgive and forget
G               A
Yeah I've always had to be right


D       Dmaj7
D       Dmaj7
G       Gm
D       Dmaj7
G       Gm
D       D

D                    Dmaj7
Just because I'm no longer a kid
D                    Dmaj7
doesn't mean I won't do those things that I 
G              Gm               D      Dmaj7
did back then, so don't be surprised
G    Gm                D        Dmaj7 
If I always have to be right
G         Gm                    D
Because I have always had to be right


Em                 A
This is not just a random event
Em              A
you can ask anybody I've met in my life
Em              A
I can't just forgive and forget
G               A
Yeah I've always 
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had to be right