C       G       F       Dm    C#dim    Dm7     G/B     G/Bb  
E|---0---|---3---|---1---|---1---|---0---|---1---|---3---|---3---|
B|---1---|---3---|---1---|---3---|---2---|---1---|---3---|---3---|
G|---0---|---0---|---2---|---2---|---0---|---2---|---0---|---0---|
D|---2---|---0---|---3---|---0---|-------|---0---|---0---|---0---|
A|---3---|---2---|---3---|-------|---4---|-------|---2---|---1---|
E|-------|---3---|---1---|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|

     A7    Dm7/C     Am      Em     C7       E7     Am/C
E|---0---|---1---|---0---|---0---|---0---|---0---|---0---|
B|---2---|---1---|---1---|---0---|---1---|---0---|---1---|
G|---0---|---2---|---2---|---0---|---3---|---1---|---2---|
D|---2---|---0---|---2---|---2---|---2---|---0---|---2---|
A|---0---|---3---|---0---|---2---|---3---|---2---|---3---|
E|-------|-------|-------|---0---|-------|---0---|-------|


[INTRO]

|    C    |     G     |     C      |    F    |    Dm    |   C#dim   |    Dm7   |     G     |

|    C    |    G/B    |    G/Bb    |    A7   |    Dm    |   Dm7/C   |     G    |     G     |


[VERSE}

C         G     C
While you were asleep

          F                 Am         Em   Am
Pulled my hood to block the light from the TV

           C7           Dm               Dm7
Turned the volume up to distract me from constant noises

G       F     Em   Dm       C
Leaking under the apartment door

   G       C
It doesn't help

      F              Am      Em         Am
I get up and I crawl out and don't hear more

       C7           Dm                  Dm7
Make a barricade of full trash bags and empty boxes

G         F          Em      Dm
Perched behind them, closely watching


[D PEAT INTRO]


[VERSE]

C         G     C
While you were asleep
 
       F                 Am     Em      Am
On the couch, watching a movie, smoking weed

     C7                Dm             Dm7
Rummaging through the utensils in the kitchen counter,

G      F        Em          Dm
In the drainer, which one's sharper.

C        G            C
When the light creeps in

       F                 Am     Em    Am
loosen my grip and crawl back into my bed.

      C7             Dm          Dm7
Your alarm is set to go off in a half an hour.

G            F           Em       Dm
Eyes closed. Fake snore. None the wiser.


[CHORUS] (same chords as intro)

C         G         C        F     Dm
   Victoria made me happy

          C#dim   Dm7     G      C
Now I can only be scared

           G/B          G/Bb             A7
And people tell me that time can fix the wound.

           Dm
But that's crap.

             Dm7/C      G
'Cause she's not coming back

    G        C
And life's unfair.


           G           C            F      Dm
I'm always anxious and worried.

           C#dim           Dm7      G      C
I'm always freaked out and scared.

           G/B          G/Bb             A7
And people tell me that time can fix the wound.

           Dm
But that's crap.

        Dm7/C      G
Vicki's not coming back.

      G
And I scream


[BRIDGE]

Dm             G
"Why did I get left behind?"

  Em             A
I know it's an exaggeration

Dm             G
to say I would rather die than

Em                    A          Dm
share this place with people capable

        G                  E7
of inspiring such fear and hopelessness

         Am     Am/C  G
that I'm frozen in my bed...
                          
                     F
but that sums it up.


[VERSE]

C       G    C
Teenage halloween

        F             Am      Em      Am
Hot safety pins in nozzles of shaving cream

          C7               Dm             Dm7
Spend the evening spraying cars, toilet papering houses

G          F       Em       Dm    
What's the harm in smashing pumpkins?


C       G        C
Decades on, with kids

      F                   Am       Em
And I don't let them stay out past dark.

  Am         C7                 Dm
I sit on the front porch with a shotgun

              Dm7
While they're upstairs sleeping.

G     F        
Total darkness.

Em       Dm
Love. Protection.


[D PEAT CHORUS]

[END WITH:]

           Dm
But that's crap.

        Dm7/C      G
Vicki's not coming back.

    G        C
And life's unfair