Amanda Palmer -- "Bigger on the Inside"
Use the third fret on the B string for accents if you would like.
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You’d think I’d shot their children
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From the way that they are talking
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And there’s no point in responding
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‘Cause it will not make them stop.
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And I am tired of explaining
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And of seeing so much hating
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In the very same safe havens
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Where I used to just see helping
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I’ve been drunk and skipping dinner
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Eating skin from off my fingers
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And I tried to call my brother
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But he no longer exists
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I keep forgetting to remember
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That he would have been much prouder
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If he saw me shake these insults off
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Instead of getting bitter
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I am bigger on the inside
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But you have to come inside to see me
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Otherwise you’re only hating
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Other people’s low-res copies
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You’d think I’d learn my lesson
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From the way they keep on testing
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My capacity for pain
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And my resolve to not get violent
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But though my skin is thickened
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Certain spots can still be got in
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It is typically human of me
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Thinking I am different
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To friends hooked up to hospital
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Machines, two kinds of cancer
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And there is no better place than from this
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Waiting room to answer
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The French kid who wrote an e-mail
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To the website late last night
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His father raped him and he’s scared
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He asked me “How do you keep fighting?"
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And the truth is I don’t know
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I think it’s funny that he asked me
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‘Cause I don’t feel like a fighter lately
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I am too unhappy
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You are bigger on the inside
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But your father cannot see
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You need to tell someone, be strong
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And somewhere some dumb rockstar truly loves you.
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You’d think I’d get perspective
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From my few years by the bedside
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It is difficult to see the ones I
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Love so close to death
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All their infections and procedures
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And the will to live at all in question
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Can I not accept that my own
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Problems are so small?
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You took my hand when you woke up
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I had been crying in the darkness
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We all die alone but I am so, so
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glad that you are here
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You whispered “We are so much bigger on the
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inside, you, me, everybody
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Some day when you’re lying where I
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am, you’ll finally get it truly"
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We are so much bigger
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Than another one can ever see
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Trying is the point of life
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So don’t stop trying
Promise me.
