Key: D
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
B5 - x24432
G5 - 320033
E5 - 022000
C5 - x32010
F#5 - 244222
A5 - x02220
Intro: Bm--G-- x2
B5 - D5 - G5 - E5 - G5 - C- x2
Verse 1:
B5
Believer
D5
Your spotlight on the
G5 E5 G5 C5
subject so incorrect
B5 D5
And suggestion suggests
G5
that I'm someone you
E5 G5 C5
should not respect
B5 D5 G5
Oh you wear your facade so well
E5 G5 C5
Covered up in a plastic shell
B5 D5
You're a liar to everyone
G5 E5 G5 C5
around you Just don't forget
Refrain:
B5 G5 E5 D5 G5
Face the honest truth
B5 G5 E5 D5
You were never you
Chorus 1:
G5 B5 G5
I'll be defiant the lion
E5
Give them the fight that
G5
will open their eyes
B5
Hangman hooded softly
G5 E5
swinging Don't close the
coffin yet I'm alive
B5 D5 G5 E5 G5 C5
And it's homecoming
B5 D5 G5 E5 G5
And it's homecoming
Verse 2:
C5 B5
Can you remember
D5 G5
When there was no wrong
E5 G5 C5
in what I could do
B5 D5
So young biting off
G5 E5
way more than I could
G5 C5 B5
chew And then one
D5 G5
day I grew too old
E5
And my cares were
G5 C5
now theirs to mold
B5
Please accept this
D5 G5
as my resignation
E5 G5 C5
It's time to go
(Repeat Refrain)
Chorus 2:
G5 B5 G5
I'll be defiant the lion
E5
Give them the fight that
G5
will open their eyes
B5
Hangman hooded softly
G5 E5
swinging Don't close the
coffin yet I'm alive
Interlude: B5 - F#5 - E5 - A- x4
G C G C--
Oh I'm alive
Bridge:
B5
I will now bleed
E5
for what I believe in
B5
No more mistakes for
E5
them to make for me
G5
So goodbye it's
E5 Bm(hold)
my time for me
Interlude: Bm--G--
B5 G5 B5 - D5 - G5 - E5 - G5 - C- x2
being me
(Repeat Refrain)
Chorus 3:
G5 B5 G5
I'll be defiant the lion
E5
Give them the fight that
G5
will open their eyes
B5
Hangman hooded softly
G5 E5
swinging Don't close the
B5 D5 G5 E5 G5
coffin yet I'm alive
C5 B5 D5 G5 E5 G5
I'm alive
C5 B5 D5 G5 E5 G5
I'm alive
C5 B5 D5 G5 E5 G(hold)
I'm alive
