It Isnt Me

[Intro Riff]
      Bm                         
E|-----------p--------------------
B|----------3^2-----2-3---3-------
G|--------4-----4---2-4---4-------
D|-------4--------4-------------2-
A|----2-----------------------0---
E|--------------------------------
  A        E   
E|----------------------|         
B|--2-----------0-------|         
G|2---2-------1---1-----| (Play 4 
D|-----2----2------2----|         
A|----------------------|         
E|--------0-------------|         

E|       
B|       
G|times) 
D|       
A|       
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[Pre-verse - four beats of Bm]
      Bm
E|-------------------------------
B|------3----3---3----3---3----3-
G|------4----4---4----4---4----4-
D|-------------------------------
A|----2--------2--------2--------
E|-------------------------------

E|-----------------------|          
B|--3----3---------------|          
G|--4----4---------------| Maintain 
D|-----------------------|          
A|2----------------------|          
E|-----------------------|          

                                
                                
this strumming pattern in verse 
                                
                                
                                

[Verse]
Bm                     A
No, don't you say you love me
               E
When you don't love me
         F#           A           
You only wanted me to be there 
      Bm
when you fall
                  A
Now everything is changing
               E
But you're not changing
                F#       A        
Then say you'll blame me if i 
      Bm
change at all

But i'm the same
       A
I'm the same
                E
It's just circumstances
            F#             A      
They always spin around as far as 
    Bm
i recall
                      A            
And then if we're not taking all 
  E
our chances
          F#                 A    
One day regret will come and 
          Bm (Intro riff)
surely kill us all


(Intro riff x4 with chorus)
           A      E       Bm
And when i try to work it out
               A          E       
Just what this whole damn thing's 
  Bm
about
              A       E     Bm
You say we're running to be free
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             A
But it isn't me
         E
It isn't me

It isn't
Bm (pre-verse for 4-count again)
Me

Bm                     A
We all have hearts for someone
            E
We all have no one
            F#             A      
We all have everything conceivable
     Bm
 between
              A
Bold ideas of sorrow
            E
Pain and redemption
             F#             A     
Where is the love i need to keep 
         Bm
me off my knees?

Where is escape?
      A
Where is escape?
             E               F#   
Where is the final    battle 
        A             Bm
fought upon for my soul to see?
                      A
Where all the ways to break me
             E
They give up on me
            F#                A   
And all the ways to live they come
           Bm
 to rescue me

(Repeat Chorus from above, but end 
on G into bridge rather than going 
back to Bm)

And when i try to work it out
Just what this whole damn thing's 
about
You say we're running to be free
But it isn't me
It isn't me
It isn't
Me
G                  F#
And after all this time i thought
        Bm               A     
'well i can't go on just keeping 
         E
saying nothing'
G                       F#
I'll scream until these lungs are 
raw
      Bm              A           
If it means that i at least stood 
       E
up for something
G                            F#
You won't kill me with those words 
you say
    Bm           A          
And I will never change in my 
     E
direction
G                       F#
Because maybe it's just all a game
    Bm            A         
And I will never fall at your 
     E
suggestion
         G
Until it all
         F#
Until it all
      Bm (Intro riff into chorus)
Falls away

And when i try to work it out
Just what this whole damn thing's 
about
You say we're running to be free
But it isn't me \
It isn't me      \
It isn't         /  Repeat last line
 x4
Me              /