THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

LEVEL 5Bb · 160 BPM · Taylor Swift

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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 was so nice throw ing big par ties, jump in to the pool from the bal co ny, ev ’ry one swim ming in a cham pagne sea.

And there are no rules when you show up here.

Bass beat rat tl ing the chan de lier.

Feel ing so Gats by for that whole year.

So (Bb)why’d you have to rain on my pa (C)rade?

I’m shak ing my (Gm)head

and lock ing the (C)gates.

This is why we can’t have (F)nice

(Dm)things,

(Bb)dar

(C)ling.

Be cause you break them, I had to take them a way.

(C)This is why we can’t have (F)nice

(Dm)things,

(Bb)hon

(C)ey.

(F)Did you think I would n’t hear (Dm)all the things you said a bout (Bb)me?

(C)This is why we can’t have nice things.

It was so nice be ing friends a gain.

There I was, giv ing you a sec ond chance, but you stabbed me in the back while shak ing my hand.

And there in lies the is sue: friends don’t try to trick you, get you on the phone and mind twist you.

And so I took an axe to a mend ed fence.

But I’m (C)This is why we can’t have...

(F)Here’s a toast to my (Dm)real friends: they don’t care a (C)bout the “he said, she said.” And here’s to my (Dm)ba by: he ain’t read ing (C)what they call me late ly.