Sticks And Stones

Tom: G

   Gmaj9 D4     C  C9   (pulloff) G/B  G  C9  Em  D

e|--5------5----3-----3------------3---3---3---0--2--------------------------|
B|--3------3----1-----1------------3---3---3---0--3--------------------------|
G|--0------0----0-----0------------0---0---0---0--2--------------------------|
D|--4------4----2---2p0------------0---0---2---2--0--------------------------|
A|--5------5----3-----3------------2---2---3---2-----------------------------|
E|--3------------------------------3-------0---------------------------------|

 

                Gmaj9       C      C9     Gmaj9  C C9   

You would have kept those words on your tongue

            Gmaj9       C C9    Gmaj9  C C9   

If you had known what they had done

            Gmaj9       C           C9      Gmaj9  C C9   

While your fists stay right, right by your side

                Gmaj9      C C9    Gmaj9   C  

Your words they bruise me deep   inside

   G/B            C          D4       G  G/B  C9        

I’d rather have sticks and stones and broken bones

          C        D4    Em

Than the words you say to me

G/B                C      D4        G   G/B   C9

Cause I know that bruises heal and cuts will seal

           C              D

But your words beat the life from me

 

              Gmaj9       C  C9    Gmaj9  C C9   

Sometimes your words are thick as lead

                Gmaj9    C  C9    Gmaj9  C C9   

You swing them strong upside my head

              Gmaj9    C  C9    Gmaj9  C C9   

What hasn’t killed has made me strong

               Gmaj9    C  C9    Gmaj9  C C9   

So I’ll take my scars and move along

 

D               G       G/B     C

Goodbye is the best way that I know

    D           G  G/B   C       D      G/B

To forgive and still be letting go   (I'd rather have...)