Bigger On The Inside chords by Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer -- "Bigger on the Inside"

Use the third fret on the B string for accents if you would like.

G C A C

   G
You’d think I’d shot their children
     C
From the way that they are talking
      A
And there’s no point in responding
     C
‘Cause it will not make them stop.

     G
And I am tired of explaining
    C
And of seeing so much hating
    A
In the very same safe havens
    C
Where I used to just see helping


     G
I’ve been drunk and skipping dinner
    C
Eating skin from off my fingers
   A
And I tried to call my brother
    C
But he no longer exists


     G
I keep forgetting to remember
    C
That he would have been much prouder
   A
If he saw me shake these insults off
 C
Instead of getting bitter


   A
I am bigger on the inside
    C
But you have to come inside to see me
A
Otherwise you’re only hating
G
Other people’s low-res copies


G


   G
You’d think I’d learn my lesson
     C
From the way they keep on testing
   A
My capacity for pain
     C
And my resolve to not get violent


  G
But though my skin is thickened
    C
Certain spots can still be got in
   A
It is typically human of me
C
Thinking I am different

  G
To friends hooked up to hospital
 C
Machines, two kinds of cancer
     A
And there is no better place than from this
C
Waiting room to answer


      G
The French kid who wrote an e-mail
    C
To the website late last night
      A
His father raped him and he’s scared
       C
He asked me “How do you keep fighting?"


    G
And the truth is I don’t know
       C
I think it’s funny that he asked me
     A
‘Cause I don’t feel like a fighter lately
C
I am too unhappy


    A
You are bigger on the inside
     C
But your father cannot see
      A
You need to tell someone, be strong
       G
And somewhere some dumb rockstar truly loves you.


G


   G
You’d think I’d get perspective
    C
From my few years by the bedside
   A
It is difficult to see the ones I
C
Love so close to death


      G
All their infections and procedures
    C
And the will to live at all in question
A
Can I not accept that my own
C
Problems are so small?


      G
You took my hand when you woke up
      C
I had been crying in the darkness
    A
We all die alone but I am so, so
C
glad that you are here

       A
You whispered “We are so much bigger on the
C
inside, you, me, everybody
A
Some day when you’re lying where I
G
am, you’ll finally get it truly"


A
We are so much bigger
   C
Than another one can ever see
A
Trying is the point of life
  G
So don’t stop trying

Promise me.