Tom:F#mIntro: (F#mEAF#mA E) 2x
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Don't damn me
EA
When I speak a piece of my mind
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'Cause silence isn't golden
AE
When I'm holding it inside
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'Cause I've been where I have been
EA
And I've seen what I have seen
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I put the pen to the paper
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'Cause it's all a part of me
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Be it a song or a casual conversation
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To hold my tongue speaks
AE
Of quiet reservations
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Your words once heard
AE
They can place you in a faction
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My words may disturb
AE (F#mEAF#mA E) 2x
But at least there's reaction
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Sometimes I wanna kill
AE
Sometimes I wanna die
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Sometimes I wanna destroy
AE
Sometimes I wanna cry
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Sometimes I could get even
AE
Sometimes I could give up
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Sometimes I could give
AE
Sometimes I never give a fuck
F#mAD
It's only for a while
AD
I hope you undersdtand
BE
I never wanted this to happen
BE
Didn't want to be a man
AD
So I hid inside my world
AD
I took what I could find
BE
I cried when I was lonely
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I feel down when I was blind
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But don't damn me when I speak
A
A piece of my mind
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'Cause silence isn't golden
AE
When I'm holding it inside
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'Cause I've been where I have been
EA
And I've seen what I have seen
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I put the pen to the paper
AEF#m
'Cause it's all a part of me
F#mAE
How can I ever satisfy you
F#mAE
And how can I ever make you see
F#mAE
That deep inside we're all somebody
F#mAE
And it don't matter who you wanna be
ADAD
But now I gotta smile I hope you comprehend
BE
For this man can stay it happened
BE
'Cause this child has been condemned
AD
So I stepped into your world
AD
I kicked you in the mind
BE
And I'm the only witness
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To the nature of my crime
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But look at what we've done
EA
To the innocent and young
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Whoa listen to who's talkin'
AE
'Cause we're not the only ones
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The trash collected by the eyes
EA
And dumped into the brain
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Said it tears into our consciuos thoughts
AE
You tell me who's to blame
DAE
I know you don't wanna hear me cryin'
DAE
And I know you don't wanna hear me deny
DAE
That your satisfaction lies in your illusions
DAE
But your delusions are yours and not mine
DAE
We take for granted we know the whole story
D
We judge a book by it's cover
A
And read what we want
E (F#mEAF#mA E) 2x
Between selected lines
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Don't hail me
E
And don't idolize the ink
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Or I've failed in my attentions
AE
Can you find the missin' link
F#mEA
Your only validation is in living your own life
F#mAE
Vicarious existence is a fucking waste of time
F#mAE
So I send this song to the offended
F#mAE
I said what I meant and I've never pretended
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As so many others do intending just to please
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If I damned your point of view
AE (F#mEAF#mA E) 2x (DAF#m) 3x
Could you turn the other cheek DEC#EC#F#mF#m
Don't damn me
EA
When I speak a piece of my mind
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'Cause silence it's not golden
AE
When I'm holding it inside
F#m
I've been where I have been
EA
And I've seen what I have seen
F#m
Put the pen to the paper
AE
'Cause it's all a part of me
F#mE
Don't damn me
AF#mA
I said don't damn me
EF#mE
I said don't hail me
AF#mAEF#mEC#F#mC#D#EBAE
Don't damn me
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All right that's stopped!