Intro
EmEmGDF#m
Allie, what would you do?
CEm
When there's bombs in the middle east, you want to hurt yourself
AEm
When there's knives in the city streets, you want to end yourself
DCGB
When there's fun in your mother's house, you want to cry yourself to sleep
EmGDF#m
Allie, what would you do?
CEm
With your fears, because they're adding one by one
AEm
And your mountains are obscured behind the sun
DEmGC
And the person that you could be is crumbling into dust
GC
You're in the mess 'cause you thought
G
You'd be someone else
AmEm
'Cause the tricks in your head are a lie
AmEm
Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie
D
Yeah, the tricks in your head are
AmEm
Tricks in your head are a lie
EmGDF#m
Allie, hand on your head
CEm
And a prayer from the soon-to-be-closing library
AEm
And if you looked from here, you would surely see
DEmGC
There's a softness in your heart, there's a poetry to come
GC
You bought that gun 'cause you thought
G
You'd be someone else
AmEm
'Cause the tricks in your head are a lie
AmEm
Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie
D
Yeah, the tricks in your head are a
AmEm
The tricks in your head are a lie
(arpeggio)
DC
You made a list of all your heroes
DC
And you thought about what they went through
AmG
Yeah, you thought about what they went through
FEmD
It's much darker, much harder, than anything that happened to you
Solo (same rhythm as first verse):
Em, G, D, F#m, C, Em, A, Em, D, C, G, B
EmGDF#m
Allie, what would you do?
CEm
When your seven-year plan happens to someone else
AEm
And the people in your life you would happily shelf
DEmGC
When day falls night, you are truly on your own
GC
You're in this place 'cause you thought
G
You'd be someone else
AmEm
But the tricks in your head are a lie
AmEm
Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie
D
Yeah, the tricks in your head are a
AmEm
Tricks in your head are a lie