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[Verse 1]
Am7                        D
It always shows up at your door
                      Am F   D  Am7
When  you least expect it to
Am7
Old  wounds from your youth
D7                  Am     F     D Gm
Reintroduce themselves to you
      Gm             F               C
Well, do your best impression of yourself
  Gm           F              C
A  watered down version of the way it felt
      Gm           G           Em       F         F
To  be unrecognized, misunderstood, and spelled out
[pause]  F
In plain letters
F        F
In  plain letters
[pause]

[Verse 2]
Am7                         D                 Am7   F  A D
The camera’s always on the wrong side of the glass
Am7              D7                     Am     D
Is there ever a flattering angle of the facts?
     Gm              F            C
Well, do your best impression of yourself
  Gm           F
A  box within a box in a storage cell
          Gm                F            C
Those who tell you what you are, poke an insect in a jar
    G                     Bb
And put it on your name tag
[pause]  F
In plain letters
F         F     Bb
In plain letters


[Refrain]
Cm          F            Ab
How does it look when it dries in pen
        Cm            F          Ab
On your eyes, on your heart, on your emptiness?
          Cm          F                     Ab
Well, you can’t be surprised by what you’ve come to expect
  Cm              F                   Ab
I hope you find a weakness that you’re stronger than
  Cm              F                   Ab
I hope you find a weakness that you’re stronger than


[Verse 3]
Am7                 D7                         F    C  F  D
You’ve got a case of winter that no one’s ever seen
Am            D                    F    D
Is that a new bandage on your knees?
    Gm      F                 C
Did anybody ask you what was wrong
            Gm           F
Or did they stare at you strange
F                          F
When you asked where you belonged?
    Gm                F              C         F
You know you can't defeat it, so you run out to greet it
                   G          Bb
But it looks like a stop sign
F                   Bb
In plain letters
         F
In plain letters


[Refrain]
Cm          F           Ab
How does it look when it dries it in pen
        Cm            F             Ab
On your eyes, on your heart, on your emptiness?
          Cm          F                     Ab
Well, you can’t be surprised by what you’ve come expect
  Cm              F                    Ab
I hope you find a weakness that you’re stronger than
  Fm                                   Ab
I hope you find a weakness that you’re stronger than
  Cm              F             Ab                      Bb   Gm
I hope you find a weakness that yoouurree ... stronger than
Bb   Dm    Gm
Stroooonger than

[Instrumental]
Bb Dm Gm7  Bb Dm G7

[Verse 4]
          Bb        Dm           Gm
It’s an illiterate feeling and a slow healing
Bb          Dm           Gm
Your world spins like a planet on your ceiling
      Bb            Dm          Gm        F
And I wish it was enough to convince you of yourself
       Gm        Bb    F Bb            F
But it can’t be said in  plain letters
F       Ab
In plain letters
F      Ab
Plain letters