Amanda Palmer -- "Bigger on the Inside" Use the third fret on the B string for accents if you would like. G C A C

You’^Gd think I’d shot their children From the ^Cway that they are talking And there’^As no point in responding ‘Cause i^Ct will not make them stop.

And I am ^Gtired of explaining And of ^Cseeing so much hating In the ^Avery same safe havens Where I ^Cused to just see helping

I’ve bee^Gn drunk and skipping dinner Eating ^Cskin from off my fingers And I ^Atried to call my brother But he ^Cno longer exists

I keep for^Ggetting to remember That he ^Cwould have been much prouder If he ^Asaw me shake these insults off In^Cstead of getting bitter

I am ^Abigger on the inside But you ^Chave to come inside to see me ^AOtherwise you’re only hating ^GOther people’s low-res copies

You’^Gd think I’d learn my lesson From the ^Cway they keep on testing My ca^Apacity for pain And my re^Csolve to not get violent

But ^Gthough my skin is thickened Certain ^Cspots can still be got in It is ^Atypically human of me ^CThinking I am different

To ^Gfriends hooked up to hospital Ma^Cchines, two kinds of cancer And there ^Ais no better place than from this ^CWaiting room to answer

The French ^Gkid who wrote an e-mail To the ^Cwebsite late last night His father ^Araped him and he’s scared He asked me ?^C??How do you keep fighting?"

And the ^Gtruth is I don’t know I think it’^Cs funny that he asked me ‘Cause ^AI don’t feel like a fighter lately ^CI am too unhappy

You are ^Abigger on the inside But your ^Cfather cannot see You need to ^Atell someone, be strong And somewhere ^Gsome dumb rockstar truly loves you.

You’^Gd think I’d get perspective From my ^Cfew years by the bedside It is ^Adifficult to see the ones I ^CLove so close to death

All their in^Gfections and procedures And the ^Cwill to live at all in question ^ACan I not accept that my own ^CProblems are so small?

You took my ^Ghand when you woke up I had been ^Ccrying in the darkness We all ^Adie alone but I am so, so ^Cglad that you are here

You whispered ^A“We are so much bigger on the ^Cinside, you, me, everybody ^ASome day when you’re lying where I ^Gam, you’ll finally get it truly"

^AWe are so much bigger Than ^Canother one can ever see ^ATrying is the point of life So ^Gdon’t stop trying

Promise me.

Amanda Palmer - Bigger on the inside