TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
It’s not sim ple to say;
most (C)days
I don’t rec og nize me with these (Dm)shoes and this a pron.
That place and its pa trons have (Bb)ta ken more
than I gave them.
It’s not eas y to know;
I’m not (C)an y thing
like I used to be, al though it’s true,
I was nev er at ten tion’s sweet cen ter.
(Bb)I still re mem ber that girl:
She’s im (F)per fect,
but she tries.
She is (C)good,
but she lies.
She is (Dm)hard
on her self.
She is (Bb)bro ken and won’t ask for help.
She is (F)mess y,
but she’s kind.
She is (C)lone ly
most of the time.
She is (Dm)all of this, mixed up and baked in a beau ti ful (Bb)pie.
She is gone, but she used to be (F)mine.
It’s not what I asked for.
Some times (C)life
just slips in through a back door and (Dm)carves out a per son and makes you be lieve it’s all (Bb)true,
and now I’ve got you.
And you’re not what I asked for.
If I’m hon est, I know I would give it all back for a (Dm)chance to start o ver and re write an end ing or (Bb)two
for the girl that I knew, who’d be (F)reck less,
just e nough;
who’d get (C)hurt,
but who learns how to tough en up when she’s (Dm)bruised
and gets used by a man who can’t (Bb)love.
And then she’ll get stuck, and be (F)scared
of the life that’s in side her, grow ing (A7)strong er each day, till it fi n’lly re minds her to (Dm)fight just a lit tle to bring back the fire in her eyes
that’s been gone,
but used to be (F)mine,
used to be (Dm)mine.
She is (F)mess y,