INTRO:
NONE

VERSE:
        C
In the sixth grade
       Am
I was wishing I was older
 F            C
Not doing my work like I was supposed to
 C                        Am
Yeah on my floor with my comic books open
     F              C
Just me, myself and me

              C
And in the eighth grade
            Am
I had the world on my shoulders
 F                    C
Warm inside but the house was getting colder
 C               Am
Mom upstairs and dad on the sofa
    F                     C
Is this how it's meant to be?


PD-C HORUS:
  C                              Am
Crawling down the path that you paved for me
 F                         C
Lying on the bed that you made for me
          C                     Am
I ain't looking for prayers or sympathy
    F         C
Just hear me out


CHORUS:
           C Am
So we get older
            F C
And we get wiser
     C                     Am
But don't try and tell me what to do
             F                  C
'Cause this kid's got problems too

              C  Am
Maybe you're bolder
               F   C
A little bit stronger
     C                     Am
And don't try and tell me what to do
            F                  C
'Cause this kid's got problems too


VERSE:
        C
In the tenth grade
                  Am
We were skipping class and fooling teachers
 F                     C
They never knew I was kissing her by the bleachers
 C                  Am
All my friends had said she was a keeper
  F               C
She's the one for me

           C
Finished twelfth grade
     Am
And once I graduated
      F                            C
They said "Go get a job, you know one so you can pay rent"
C                     Am
No nine to five just show me where the stage is
        F                  C
Cause that's the place for me


PD-C HORUS:
            C                              Am
I've been crawling down the path that you paved for me
 F                         C
Lying on the bed that you made for me
          C                     Am
I ain't looking for prayers or sympathy
    F         C
Just hear me out


CHORUS:
           C Am
So we get older
            F C
And we get wiser
     C                     Am
But don't try and tell me what to do
            F                  C
Cause this kid's got problems too

              C  Am
Maybe you're bolder
               F   C
A little bit stronger
     C                     Am
And don't try and tell me what to do
            F                  C
Cause this kid's got problems too


BDA K:
            F                       C
Well we're not so different (we're not so different)
     G                 Am
We keep on making the same mistakes (Oooh oooh)
       F                       C
We're not so different (we're not so different)
          G                  Am
Yeah, we keep on making the same mistakes (Oooh oooh)
       F                       C
We're not so different (we're not so different)
          G                  Am
Yeah, we keep on making the same mistakes (Oooh oooh)
       F                       C
We're not so different (we're not so different)
    G                  Am
We keep on making the same mistakes


CHORUS:
           C Am
So we get older
            F C
And we get wiser
     C                     Am
But don't try and tell me what to do
            F                  C
Cause this kid's got problems too

              C  Am
Maybe you're bolder
               F   C
A little bit stronger
     C                     Am
And don't try and tell me what to do
            F                  C
Cause this kid's got problems too


OUTRO:
             C
Back in the sixth grade
          Am
I always wanted to be older
 F
But dad's been gone
     C
And mom was feeling lonesome
 C                        Am
Trying to fill the empty space in the sofa
     F              C
Just me, myself and me