Am              G                Am              G
Dear Frustrated Superstar, your mother's waiting in the car
   C                          G
To whisk you off to your new premiere
    Am                   G
And all the friends who knew your name
    Am                  G
Are waiting, wondering what became
       C                                   G
Of the girl that they once knew but never loved
            C
They never loved

    Am         G
So every city tells the lie
     Am                G
Of tramps and beggars, butterflies
      C                           G
Of all these things, then what am I?
      Am             G
A princess in a threadbare gown
     Am               G
A gaudy, painted circus clown?
      C                                G
A child who lost her key and can't get home?

[Bridge]

 Am
All the things I never was -
  Am                G
A traitor of the Western Wars
  Am                    G
A girl who did it just because
   Am            G
Do or die, or don't at all
   Am            G
Prepare to suffer for your call
  Am                 G                 F
Some things have to hurt or they're not true
F                G
They can't be true

[Chorus]

         C
When you die, you'll wonder, "was that it?"
          F
Will you think of how you'd wished you lived?
             G
Well, you're here now
            F      G
Yes you're here now
     C
So I only want to be up there
       F
With a hundred others, I don't care
        G
'Cause I'm here now
        F        G
Yes I'm here now

[Verse]

Am                   G
Papers, books, philosophy
 Am              G
An envelope's eternity
  C                                G
I count each passing minute, hour, day.....
C
Wonder how I smile so well
 F
Wonder how they never tell
    C                             G
There's really no one living here at all

[Bridge]

Am
So hear a line from God's own song
 Am                     G
To comfort you when things go wrong
 Am                  G
My children never visit me
  Am7                 G
Go searching in my sky at night
   Am                  G
They must be there to set alight
  Am                G             F        G
Their mother's aching heart is so unsure
         F      G
I'm so unsure....

[Chorus]

         C
When you die, you'll wonder, "was that it?"
          F
Will you think of how you'd wished you lived?
             G
Well, you're here now
            F      G
Yes you're here now
     C
So I only want to be up there
       F
With a hundred others, I don't care
        G
'Cause I'm here now
        F        G
Yes I'm here now
C
Again
Am
Again
C
Again

[Outro]

C                           Am
Dear Frustrated Superstar, I really hope you get that far
    C               G
If not, I hope you live
             C
I hope you live