Tom: C
F Am G
F Fmaj7 Am G
[Verse 1]
F Am G
I’m holding back my own hair now
F Am G
‘Cause you don’t even want to hold my hand
F Am G
I can’t change the person I was before I met you
F Am G
I can’t change where I’ve been
[Pre-Chorus]
G Am F
But how could I have told you when you didn’t want to hear it?
G Am F
And how can I tell you now if you don’t want to listen?
[Chorus]
F Am
I wasn’t always the person that I am now
G
But I worked so hard to get here
F Am
And all I want is for you to hear me out
G
Or am I singing to a crowd of new deaf ears?
[Post-Chorus]
F G
I haven’t always been quite this innocent
Am G
But I worked so hard to get here
F G
I haven’t always been quite this innocent
F Am G (hold) F Am
But I worked so haaaaaard to get here
F Am
[Verse 2]
Am C G
The road to recovery was a long one, in case you wanna know
Am C G
I was reduced to nothing but my shell
F Am G
While trying to find someone who would love the exterior
F Am G
Well, I subsequently destroyed my inner self
[Pre-Chorus 2]
G Am F
But how could I have told you when you didn’t want to hear it?
G Am F
And God, I really need this now, so tell me that you'll listen
[Chorus]
F C
I wasn’t always the person that I am now
G
But I worked so hard to get here
F Am
And all I want is for you to hear me out
G
Or am I singing to a crowd of new deaf ears?
[Post-Chorus]
F G
I haven’t always been quite this innocent
Am G
But I worked so hard to get here
F G
I haven’t always been quite this innocent
F Am G (hold) C Am F
But I worked so haaaaaard to get here
C Am F
[Bridge]
C* Am* F*
I fell for a trick and fell into the trap of a thief’s bed
C* Am* F*
Who stole what I’ve known, corrupted my bones and left me there for dead
C* Am* F*
He borrowed my body until my skin started rotting through my head
C* Am* F*
I woke up alone and these jutting bones were all that I had left
C* Am*
I was all that I had left
F
And I felt totally inept
C Am
I tried to use my body to connect
F
That gaping hole right through my chest
C Am F
But I was nothing but rotting flesh
C Am F
No, I was nothing but rotting flesh
C* Am*
Confused, I cried and wept
F* C* Am*
For God to take me back
[Outro]
F*
I wasn’t always the person that I am now
G*
But I worked so hard to get here (x2)
