Em                            G
Feel it cutting into me, the doubting painful knife
        C                           D
Feel it deepening the rift, finally hit just right
         Em                               G
Couldn't take the love I had, so weak and burning low
       C                       D                  Em G C D
But it grew into a weapon only hurting me, this I know
          Em G C D
is nonfiction

   Em                          G
So good with numbers, science, math I like
        C                      D
But I'm terrible at English so I despise
     Em                              G
This part of me that wants a simple "right or wrong"
      C                                  D
And I feel that everything I choose will always be false

    Em
And today

This homework
G
About me

A blank sheet
  C
Accomplished

Content with
     D
This life I will now live
     Em
'Til I think why are we
     G
Just sometimes, no always
       A
Saying how we're sad, and
       Bm
Saying how we're lonely?

        C                                D
Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?
        Em                                 Bm
Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?
        C                              D
Can you even find the one who dyed his red heart to black?
     Em
Hey, who could it be?
     Bm
Hey, someone tell me!

        C                                 D
Can you even solve the question with your abacus yet?
        Em                              Bm
Can you even stop the rope from hanging him by his neck?
       C                                   D
Did we really choose it right saying we're okay this way?
     Em
Hey, just tell me how
     Bm
It's not like I care now

Em G C D (x2)

         Em                      Bm
Counting days like numbers, they all pass their prime
     C                 G
And again hypnotically swimming through time
  Em                 Bm
Behind the power and guards I put up
  C
I hide
N.C.
Knowing they had long died

Em
From problems

My resolve
     G
Just can't solve

That homework
  C
Accomplished

Content with
     D
This life I will now live
     Em
'Til I think and he speaks
     G
That demon inside us
        A
Saying "let me just leave"
        Bm
Saying "someone kill me!"

        C                                D
Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?
        Em                                 Bm
Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?
        C                              D
Can you even find the one who dyed his red heart to black?
     Em
Hey, who could it be?
     Bm
Hey, someone tell me!

        C                                 D
Can you even solve the question with your abacus yet?
        Em                              Bm
Can you even stop the rope from hanging him by his neck?
       C                                   D
Did we really choose it right saying we're okay this way?

     Em
Hey, just tell me how
     Bm
Hey, just tell me how!

        C                       D
Can you even say the formula of area now?
        Em                                     Bm
Can you even scream the dreams you swore would never go out?
    C                                 D
Who was the one who let my hopes just curl and up die?
     Em
Hey, who could it be?
    Bm
No, it's gotta be...

     C                                D
Just open up your eyes, why don't you grow up and see?
             Em                               Bm
But what the hell is "growing up" and tell me when will I be?
      C                              D
Can a single person out there just explain it to me?
     Em
Hey, just tell me how
     Bm
It's not like I care now!