Tone: [Em]
Capo: any
Fingerpicking/Strumming pattern:
[Em]Quick, quick
Tell me something [C]awful
Like you are a [G]poet
Trapped inside the [G]body of a finance guy
[Em]Tell me all your [C]secrets
All you'll ever [G]be is
My eternal consolation [Em]prize
You see I was a [C]debutant
In another [G]life, but
Now I seem to be scared to go [Em]outside
If [G]comfort is a construct
I don't believe in good luck
Now that I know what's what
I [G]hate it here so I will go to
Secret gardens in my mind
[Em]People need a key to get to
The only one is mine
I [D]read about it in a
book when I was a precocious [C]child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
[G]I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here[Em]
I hate it here[D] [C]
[Em]My friends used to play a [C]game where
We would pick a [G]decade
We wished we could live in instead of [Em]this
I'd say the 18[C]30s but without all the [G]racists
and getting married off for the highest [Em]bid
Everyone would [C]look down
'Cause it wasn't [G]fun now
Seems like it was never even fun back [Em]then
Nostalgia is a [C]mind's trick
If I'd been there, I'd [G]hate it
It was freezing in the palace
I [G]hate it here so I will go to
Lunar valleys in my mind
[Em]When they found a better planet
Only the gentle survived
I [D]dreamed about it in the dark
The night I felt like I might [C]die
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
[G]I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here[Em]
I hate it here[D] [C]
I [G]hate it here
I [G]hate it here [D] [C]
I [G]hate
oh [G]
ooh [G]
But my [G]castle’s crumbling [D]down
[Em]And I [C]watch all my [G]bridges burn to the [D]ground
[Em]And you don’t [C]want to [G]know me
[D]I will just let you [Em]down
[Em]You don’t want to [C]know me [Em]now
[C] [Em] [C] [D]
[C] [Em] [C] [D]
(Bridge)
[Em]My foes [C]and friends watch [G]my reign [D]end
[Em]I don’t know [C]how it could’ve [G]ended this [D]way
[Em]Smoke billows [C]from my ships [G]in the [D]harbor
[Em]People look [C]at me like [G]I’m a [D]monster
[Em]Now they’re [C]screaming at the [G]palace front [D]gates
[Em]Used to [C]chant my [D]name
[Em]Now they’re [C]screaming that [G]they hate [D]me
[Em]Never wanted [C]you to hate [G]me
(Final Chorus)
[Em]My [C]castle’s [G]crumbling [D]down
[Em]And I [C]watch all the [G]bridges burn to the [D]ground
[Em]And you don’t [C]want to [G]know me
[D]I will just let you [Em]down
[Em]My [C]castle’s [G]crumbling [D]down
[Em]You don’t [C]wanna [G]know me [D]now
cause I'm [A]lonely, but I'm good
I'm bitter, but I swear I'm fine
I'll [G]save all my romanticism for my
inner life and I'll get [Em]lost on [Bm]purpose
This place made [G]me feel [D]worthless
[Em]Lucid dreams like electrici[Bm]ty, the current flies
through me and [G]in my fantasies I rise above it
And [G]way up there, I actually love it
I [D]hate it here so I will go to
Secret gardens in my mind
[Bm]People need a key to get to
The only one is mine
I [A]read about it in a book
when I was a precocious [G]child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
[D]I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here[Bm]
I hate it here[A] [G]
[G]Quick, quick
Tell me something awful
Like you are a [D]poet
Trapped inside the body of a finance[Bm] guy [G] [A] [G]