BF#
Maybe you don't understand it
G#mD#m
what keeps them awake at night
EC#/F
What goes through their little
F#
minds when you turn off the light?
BF#G#m
Always having to say sorry tears
D#m
are stained on the pillow
EC#/F
Like the light of the moon they
F#G#mF#
can't be one They can't exist without
EF#
the sun Let's think clearly for
G#mA
a while Can he shine without a-
B
-smile? Why am I alone
F#/A#
with no one to be found?
E
Looks like they know
BF#
what's best for me
B
Why doesn't anybody like
F#/A#
me I don't understand?
A
Guess I'll have to crawl
G#
inside and I don't know
C#mF#
why I'm sitting by myself
F#(hold) BF#G#mEBF#G#mE
when the problem isn't mine
Verse 2:
BF#
Been around the block a few times
G#mD#m
been beat up by all his friends
EC#/F
Learing life is like a maze that
F#B
never seems to end Like an open
F#G#m
book blank pages left for only
D#mE
him to write Life is short this
C#/FF#G#m
chapter takes so long I Can't tell
F#E
the right from the wrong It's
F#G#m
so hard for you to place An
A
expression on his-
B
-face Why am I alone
F#/A#
with no one to be found?
E
Looks like they know
BF#
what's best for me
B
Why doesn't anybody like
F#/A#
me I don't understand?
A
Guess I'll have to crawl
G#
inside and I don't know
C#mF#
why I'm sitting by myself
F#(hold) G#mF#EF# <-- Guitar Solo
when the problem isn't mine
Guitar Solo continues:
G#m-F#-E-A-
B
Why doesn't anybody like
F#
me I don't understand
E
Why my friends and
BF#
family left me
B
At six years old he won't
F#/A#
be taught a meaning
to this mess
A
He'll just have to take a
G#C#m
guess and make his own plan
F#
And we'll never see the child
F#(Hold) BF#G#mEBF#G#mE B(hold)
that was forced to be a man
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.