Verse 1
| A E | B C#m | I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser| A E | B C#m | Midnights become my afternoons| A E | B C#m | When my depression works the graveyard shift All of the people| A E | B C#m | I've ghosted stand there in the room
Pre-Hook 1
| A E | B C#m |I should not be left to my own devices They come with prices and| A E | B C#m |vices I end up in crises (Tale as old as time)| A E | B C#m | I wake up screaming from dreaming One day I'll watch as you're leaving| A E | B C#m | Cause you got tired of my scheming (For the last time)
Hook 1
| A E | B C#m |It's me Hi! I'm the problem, it's me | A E | B C#m |At teatime Everybody agrees| A E | B C#m | I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror | A E | B C#m |It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
Instruments
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Verse 2
| A E | B C#m | Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby| A E | B C#m | And I'm a monster on the hill| A E | B C#m | Too big to hang out Slowly lurching toward your favorite city| A E | B C#m | Pierced through the heart but never killed
Pre-Hook 2
| A E | B C#m | Did you hear my covert narcissism I might disguise as altruism| A E | B C#m | Like some kind of congressman (Tale as old as time)| A E | B C#m | I wake up screaming from dreaming One day I'll watch as you're leaving| A E | B C#m | And life will lose all its meaning (For the last time)
Hook 2
| A E | B C#m |It's me Hi! I'm the problem, it's me (I'm the problem, it's me) | A E | B C#m |At teatime Everybody agrees| A E | B C#m | I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror | A E | B C#m |It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
Instruments
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Bridge
| A E | B C#m | I have this dream my daughter-in-law kills me for the money| A E | B C#m | She thinks I left them in the will| A E | B C#m | The family gathers 'round and reads it And then someone screams out| A E | B C#m | "She's laughing up at us from hell!"
Break down
| A E | B C#m |It's me Hi! I'm the problem, it's me | A E | B C#m |It's me Hi! I'm the problem, it's me | A E | B C#m | A E | B C#m |It's me Hi! Everybody agrees , Everybody agrees
Hook 3
| A E | B C#m |It's me Hi! I'm the problem, it's me (I'm the problem, it's me) | A E | B C#m |At teatime Everybody agrees (everybody agrees)| A E | B C#m | I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror| A E | B C#m | It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
Ending [Cool Down]
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