Innocent Party

F Am G
F Fmaj7 Am G

[Verse 1]
F                            Am   G
I’m holding back my own hair now
F                                 
‘Cause you don’t even want to hold
     Am   G
 my hand
F                             
I can’t change the person I was 
            Am     G
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                                 
I wasn’t always the person that I 
    Am
am now
              G
But I worked so hard to get here
F                                 
And all I want is for you to hear 
    Am
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
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But I worked so haaaaaard         to
 get here

F Am

[Verse 2]
Am                         C     
The road to recovery was a long 
    G
one, in case you wanna know
Am                            
I was reduced to nothing but my 
  C     G
shell
F                              
While trying to find someone who 
                 Am       G
would love the exterior
F                                 
Well, I subsequently destroyed my 
      Am   G
inner self

[Pre-Chorus 2]
G                             Am 
But how could I have told you 
      F
when you didn’t want to hear it?
G                           Am   
And God, I really need this now, 
   F
so tell me that you'll listen

[Chorus]
F                                 
I wasn’t always the person that I am
C
 now
             G
But I worked so hard to get here
F                                 
And all I want is for you to hear 
   Am
me out
                     G
Or am I singing to a crowd of new 
deaf ears?

[Post-Chorus]
F                                
I haven’t always been quite this 
G
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*      
I fell for a trick and fell into 
              F*
the trap of a thief’s bed
C*                         Am*   
Who stole what I’ve known, 
                  F*
corrupted my bones and left me there
 for dead
C*                    Am*        
He borrowed my body until my skin
                 F*
 started rotting through my head
C*                  Am*          
I woke up alone and these jutting
            F*
 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  
But I was nothing but rotting 
   F
flesh
          C                       
No, I was nothing but rotting 
Am F
flesh
C*                    Am*
Confused, I cried and wept
    F*                 C* Am*
For God to take me back

[Other]
F*
I wasn’t always the person that I am
 now
                G*
But I worked so hard to get here 
(x2)