Icon For Hire – Happy Hurts (Guitar Acoustic)

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Capo: no Note: This is the acoustic version the song, featured on the album Still Can’t Kill Us. In the original acoustic recording, the guitar is tuned a half-step down, to D# standard. If you tune your guitar that way, transpose the chords up 1 semitone to play along the recording. In the bridge, during "it's not even a question", the last chord played by the guitar is D#m, but other instruments play a B note(and maybe an A# note afterwards to step down), so a D#m/B (X24342) or a B (X24442) can be played instead. [Intro]
G#m   E           B    F#
Happy hurts sometimes, oh

G#m             E               B    F#
Blame it on the monsters in my mind

G#m                 E        B               F#
I've been getting better at slowly getting worse, oh

G#m               E              B    F#      G#m
What's wrong with me when happy hurts? Happy hurts
[Verse 1]
     G#m                       E
This on again off again temperamental affection

       F#                        D#m
For my darling depression is making me go mad

       G#m                         E
I hear there's a fine line between crazy and sad

      F#                         D#m
But I can't tell a difference up close

          G#m                        E
There's a lot of us you know, ill and un-diagnosed

            F#                        D#m
But I don't need a piece of paper to tell me what i already know

G#m                   E                          F#
I'm not alright for tonight can we let that bе alright?

                    D#m
Pick up the battle again in the morning light
[Pre-Chorus]
        G#m                       E
And I'm fighting so hard to comе out of the dark

          F#                         D#m
Trying to turn off the night finally let in the light

          G#m                   E
Trying to make my misery just a piece of my history

  F#                   D#m
A little less victim a little more victory
[Chorus]
G#m    E          B     F#
Happy hurts sometimes, oh

G#m              E              B    F#
Blame it on the monsters in my mind oh

G#m             E        B              F#
I keep getting better at slowly getting worse, oh

G#m                E             B    F#
What's wrong with me when happy hurts? Happy hurts
[Verse 2]
G#m                               E
So today i feel okay guess it was all just in my head

       F#                   D#m
I just need to try harder i guess

          G#m                                E
Yeah everyone else in the world seems to be doing alright

             F#                               D#m
"Yeah i'm alright" for tonight can we let the pain and the happy mix?

        G#m                     E
Can the two coexist? The beauty next to the mess

          F#                             D#m
Because i swear i have them both already beating in my chest

   G#m                      E
If that makes me crazy the numbers don't lie

      F#                                D#m
But i don't call that crazy i call that being alive
[Pre-Chorus]
        G#m                       E
And I'm fighting so hard to comе out of the dark

          F#                         D#m
Trying to turn off the night finally let in the light

          G#m                   E
Trying to make my misery just a piece of my history

  F#                 D#m
A little less victim please
[Chorus]
G#m    E          B     F#
Happy hurts sometimes, oh

G#m              E              B    F#
Blame it on the monsters in my mind oh

G#m             E        B              F#
I keep getting better at slowly getting worse, oh

G#m                E             B    F#
What's wrong with me when happy hurts? Happy hurts
[Bridge] G#m E F# D#m G#m E F# D#m
G#m                          E
If i had to pick between the way that i am

        F#                      D#m
and the way that everybody else seems to pretend

  G#m                          E
I wouldn't consider it not for even a second

        F#                         B
between psycho and sanity it's not even a question

            G#m                      E
My favorite parts of my self seems to make the least sense,

        F#                          D#m
all the cracks in my skin they just let the light in

            G#m
My favorite parts of myself  make the least sense
N.C. All the cracks in my skin let the light in [Chorus]
G#m    E          B     F#
Happy hurts sometimes, oh

G#m              E              B    F#
Blame it on the monsters in my mind oh

G#m             E        B              F#
I keep getting better at slowly getting worse, oh

G#m                E             B    F#
What's wrong with me when happy hurts? Happy hurts