G           D
I know change is a bad thing
Am                          C
Breaks me down into a sorry sad thing
         G          D              Am  C
Not some iridescent grateful butterfly

        G          D
I'll resist with defiance
        Am                  C
Not the power of a mystic silence
       G               D         Am     C
I will fight the dizzy spiral of goodbye
           G             D             Am   C
And it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
       G             D             Am   C
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright

             G             D
Please don't say you don't love me
      Am                C
Never dangle any sword above me
         G                   D            Am C
With the kind of change that severs me in two

        G          D
Give me amberizing glasses
          Am                  C
Could you slow it down like molasses
     G              D         Am       C
As I salvage my old self away from you?

           G             D             Am   C
Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
       G             D             Am   C
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
       G             D             Am   C
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright

        C
Because I have seen insane things
          Am
All those grand, historic paintings
        C                                      D
Morning light on polished swords and burnished pride

        Am
Anxious smiles encased in whalebone
          C
Spines of steel from head to tail bone
        Am                                C    D
Cannons poised to blast the turning of the tide

       G         D
It's a sad and a strange thing
         Am            C
But it's time and I am changing
     G                 D                      Am   C
Into something good or bad, well, that's your guess

       G             D
I'm my own sovereign nation
    Am                  C
Dedicated to a transformation
         G            D            Am      C
Marching on with this target on my chest, Oh yes,

           G             D             Am   C
And it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
           G             D             Am   C
Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
       Em            G             Am   C
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright

           G             D             Am   C
Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
       G             D             Am   C
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
       G             D             Am
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright