Under The Knife

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This is the song I’m too scared to write
Bm                           G
But some of you may need it tonight

[Verse 1]
Bm                  G
Oh there you were, heart made of glass
Bm                     D
fragile little thing, shattered too fast
Bm                       G
tried to pick the pieces up up up
Bm                               D
and that’s the way you first got cut cut cut
Bm                     G
Devil drew you in, you didn’t let it show
Bm                        D
didn’t want the others to ever have to know
Bm                              G
that you were getting hooked on up up up
Bm                        D
and all you had to do was cut cut cut

[Chorus]
    G                A              Bm
You carved a special place for your pain
   G               A              Bm
so it came back to hurt you every night
    G                    A             Bm
you closed your eyes and wished it all away
G            A                  Bm
until you disappeared under the knife

[Verse 2]
Bm                 G
You knew the deal, no one gives a damn
     Bm                     D
just another needy kid, sob story in hand
Bm                        G
keep your secrets covered up up up
Bm                    D
we don’t need another cut cut cut
Bm                      G
But you couldn’t hide a heart made of glass
Bm                              D
You put yourself together with all the strength you had
Bm                   G
You were finally fed up up up
Bm                     D
finally had to scream enough –nough –nough

[Chorus]
    G                A              Bm
You carved a special place for your pain
   G               A              Bm
so it came back to hurt you every night
    G                    A             Bm
you closed your eyes and wished it all away
G            A                  Bm
until you disappeared under the knife

[Rap part]
Bm                        G
Listen- I know it’s simplified from the other side
A                       Em
it’s easy to gloss over all the messy reasons why
Bm                  G
and it’s easy to forget where you’ve been
  A                                   Em
I guess that’s what the scars are for, huh?
     Bm                     G
When we were 15 we wouldn’t dare let that shit be seen
A                    Em
but now it seems mutalation’s gone mainstream
Bm                     G
I see you at my shows, scarred up from head to toe
A                          Em
like there’s no point even trying not to let it show
Bm                      G
Cause we all know, emo kids like to hurt themselves
A                     Em
too many feelings and not enough self control
Bm                         G
and I mean, does this mess any of the rest of you
A                          Em
it’s an epidemic and we’re cool with it, don’t question it
       Bm                              G
But it bothers me, our scars are currency by which we’re measured
      A                             Em
like let the record show who let it slip and who held it together
Bm                      G
cutters and burners and honorable mentions
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posers who still cut themselves up for the attention
G                               A
I don’t care your intentions, I just want you to know
   Bm
my self-hatred never took me where I wanted to go
G                                     A
and at the end of the day, you know I still had to face
           Bm
that I can pick at the pain, but can’t cut it away
                  G                           A
and you know what else I can’t do is give you ten good reasons not to
     Bm
I’ve racked my brain for clever sayings of all the things you ought to do
G                                   A
But you know, I think if there was something I could say
            Bm
They’d have thrown it on a brochure- and sent you on your way

(N/C)
So I’ll keep doing what I always do: drag my heart to the piano and make it sing for you
I’ll keep doing what I always do: drag my heart to the piano and let it sing for you

G  A  Bm x3
G  A
Bm
Drag my heart to the piano and let it sing for you