I'm pretty sure that these sound okay (this is how I play it) but honestly this is the first song I've
ever tabbed entirely and I've never taken a guitar lesson in my life.
Bm F#m C# F# C# F#m
Bm
I have earth in my voice, dear
F#m C# F#m
the world is my oyster and I am its pearly white smile
Bm F#m
I have fortune and freedom and men when I need them
C Bm C#
My life has charmed for a while
Bm F#m
But when I was young and obedient and dumb
Bm C# F#m
I was led to do terrible things
Bm F#m
By the state and the church and my mother who urged me
Bm C# Ab C#
To give up my dreams for a ring
(G) F#m Bm
Tiny little girl, yearning for the world, settled for a wedding
C# F#m
Tiny little groom, marching to his doom, never understanding
Bm C# F#m
Tiny little wife, tiny little life, tiny little ending
Bm
I was building a prison
C# B# C# F# C# F#m
I could have been living a life
(G) F#m Bm
Lonely little man, playing with your hand, wishing you were bolder
C# F#m
Secrets in a jar, fear of who you are weighing on your shoulder
Bm C# F#m
Holding it inside, holding very tight, slowly growing older
Bm C# F#m
You're building a prison, you could have been living a life
Bm F#m C# F#m
The world is so wide and before we have died we will only have one tiny taste
Bm F#m (G) Bm Am C#
If you run off and hide like a whimpering child, just think of the life you could waste
D C#/B F#m
Bm C# F#m
Bm
Break out of your prison
F#m
It's time to start living
C# F#
You've only been given one life
G Bm C# F#m
You've only been given one life
Bm C# B Bm
You've only been given one life
Bm F#m C#
F# C#
F#m
