[Verse 1]
Am
Let me set the scene
     E
I am six or seven
  Am
I live on Bates Road
         E
We're having a street party
    Am
I'm crying, hiding in my
E
Brother's bedroom, playing
Am
Pokémon Ruby cause the
F***
Kids outside won't let me play

Am
Football, they're laughing
       E
Saying nasty things
             Am
Cause at the front of an assembly
        E
I stood with my mouth wide open
   Am
My mum came in distressed
           E
Said she'd go say something
  Am
I begged her to not
             F                  C
And that was the day I decided

[Chorus]
(C)          G                    Am       F
To never let myself be seen as different
        C              G                 Am            F
And that if I ever got upset I needed to hide it
           C              E                     Am      G           F
And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand
C             E               Am        G    F
That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

[Verse 2]
Am
Kids are cunts
     E
It's bully or be bullied
Am
All the way through school
           E
I tried to never set a foot wrong
   Am
Of course I've heard that song
             E
Watched that movie, know that word
        Am
Yeah of course I've had sex
        F
I smoke loads of cigarettes

          Am
Why'd you wear your sleeves like that?
         E
Play football if you're so shit?
        Am
Why are you so quiet?
          E
Why don't you ever shut up?
         Am
What are you doing here?
        E
Who the fuck do you think you are?
      Am
No, I wasn't invited to this party
        F***                            C
But you still didn't have to spit on me

[Chorus]
(C)          G                    Am       F
To never let myself be seen as different
        C              G                 Am            F
And that if I ever got upset I needed to hide it
           C              E                     Am      G           F
And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand
C             E               Am        G    F
That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

[Instrumental]
C G Am F
C G Am F
C E Am F G
C E Am F G*

[Verse 3]
       Am
So now burn all of your dictionaries
E
You don't need them anymore
Am
Write all your own definitions
E
That's what being human's for
    Am
The self was never supposed to be
E
Stationary anyway
   Am
So why wouldn't you wanna change
                  E
From who you were taught to be, when you were a child
           Am
Before you knew yourself, before you knew the world
           E
Before you knew that you were allowed
   Am                     E
To set fire to everything that you thought you knew
Am*         Am*                F*   F*F*Fm*
Gender is a cage and we're all wild animals

[Bridge]
C            G                    Am       F
To never let myself be seen as different
        C              G                 Am    F
And if I ever got upset I needed to hide it
           C              E                     Am      G           F
And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand
C             E               Am**
That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

[Chorus]
(C)          G                    Am       F
To never let myself be seen as different
        C              G                 Am            F
And that if I ever got upset I needed to hide it
           C              E                     Am      G           F
And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand
C             E               Am        G    F
That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

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|  strum once (deadstop stab)
|  strum once (let ring out)
|  dead stop stab it five times
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