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[Verse 1]

I work the hardest when the sun is setting

I play the numbers but I keep forgetting

My broken heart, my beating chest

My blackened scars, my bated breath

My callus lungs, my empathy

My tired eyes, my hopes and dreams

[Am, Dm, G, C, F, E, C7, E7]


[Chorus]

I don't want to work myself to death

I don't want to break your concentration

Can I ever learn to love myself?

Will I ever cure my loneliness?

[Am, G, C, E, F, F#dim, G, E]


I don't wanna heed my own advice

I don't wanna feed my desperation

Even when the dirges start to play

Maybe I'll enjoy the silence

[Am, G, C, E, F, F#dim, G, E]


[Verse 2]

A marble counter and a plastic ghetto

A candy corset and a pink stiletto

My tangled mane, my tattered seams

My tiny thoughts, my reveries

My weathered veins, my hollow frame

My horoscope, my twisted fate!

[Am, Dm, G, C, F, E, C7, E7]


[Chorus]

I don't want to work myself to death

I don't want to break your concentration

Can I ever learn to love myself?

Will I ever cure my loneliness?

[Am, G, C, E, F, F#dim, G, E]


I don't wanna heed my own advice

I don't wanna feed my desperation

Even when the dirges start to play

Maybe I'll enjoy the silence

[Am, G, C, E, F, F#dim, G, E]


[Breakdown]

Hard Knocks felt worn as the 9-to-5 tea parties rolled on

dreamlike, everything tinted by the soft salmon horizon

guided by giant little invisible hands of fate

she prayed some far dreamer would take her away

[Am, Dm, C7, F, Am, Dm, C7, F] [E, Am, Gm, F, E, Am, Gm, F]


[Verse 3]

And when the doctor writes his last prescription

He'll shake his head to stave my sad addiction

My swollen neck, my second skin

My bloodied socks, my crooked chin

My wooden teeth, my splintered spine

My gauze, my pain, my god, my name

[Am, Dm, G, C, F, E, C7, E7]


[Chorus]

I don't want to work myself to death

I don't want to break your concentration

Can I ever learn to love myself?

Will I ever cure my loneliness?

[Am, G, C, E, F, F#dim, G, E]


I don't wanna live my life alone

I don't wanna plead with my own shadow

Baby when the hard knock life is won

Do you think I'll stop forgetting?

[Am, G, C, E, F, F#dim, G, E]


[Am, G, C, E, F, F#dim, G, E] [Am, G, C, E, F, F#dim, G, E]