Amanda Palmer – Bigger On The Inside (Guitar)

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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

A
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

C
Thinking I am different

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To friends hooked up to hospital

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Machines to fix their cancer

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And there is no better place than from this

C
Waiting room to answer

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The French kid who sent 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

C
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

A
Can I not accept that my own

C
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

C
glad that you are here

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You whispered "We are so much bigger on the

C
inside, you, me, everybody

A
Some day when you're lying where I

G
am, you'll finally get it, beauty"

A
We are so much bigger

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Than another one can ever see

A
Trying is the point of life

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So don't stop trying